Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655
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To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599