No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCAt night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCThere is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbThe past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941