One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC
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We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbMemory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCArt imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315