Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908
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Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCI am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCFortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947