To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678
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Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.
—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60