The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverb
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Medication 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, 1856It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCI even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC