Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BC
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A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCNo city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnWriting cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCThe proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956