The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63
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What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCTo be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCBetter sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100