Quotes

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

—Thomas Mann, 1924

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1850

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.

—Blaise Pascal, 1669

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

—Voltaire, 1764

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

—Xunzi, 250 BC

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

—William Morris, 1882

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

—Pliny the Elder, c. 77

The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.

—Baltasar Gracián, 1647

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

—Charles Lamb, 1833

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

—Phyllis Rose, 1991

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