Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902
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Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764