Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728
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Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821