Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910
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To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestThe enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883