Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverb
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The 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. 600A 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. 77What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCAn old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCThere is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780