A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964
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The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCIf anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC