Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
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In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCSport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605