Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958
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The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbScience is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913