Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Quotes
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbI 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. 1798Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975My 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, 1844Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCThe art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605