Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833
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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896