Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844