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
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The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942It 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 BCWhile 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, 1983A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500I 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, 1940Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC