A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCYour mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCWhere happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945