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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

As man disappears from sight, the land remains.

—Maori proverb

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

—Jane Austen, c. 1798

Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.

—A.J. Liebling, 1960

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

Think rich. Look poor.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

—John Quincy Adams, 1844

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

—Doris Lessing, 1994

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

—Francis Bacon, 1605