Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834
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When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCAny city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCThere is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCReal friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951