We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978