There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928
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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCKeep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884