Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCIt belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCNight affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77