A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902
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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThe poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993