Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCBe courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782