I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbA cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963