Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843
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I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Big head, little wit.
—French proverbA dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCGod walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903