All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC
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It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCKnowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCThe vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949