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I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

—David Hume, 1751

The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.

—John Henry Poynting, 1899

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

—Erasmus, 1515

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942

It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1983

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

—Eric Hodgins, 1964

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

I do love cricket—it’s so very English.

—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908

I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC