I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798
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Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCBusiness is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCThey are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827