Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

William Shakespeare

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer

My old man, he carries around the picture of the kid that came with the wallet.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.

Leila Summers

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Rene Descartes

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Elizabeth George Speare

The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.

Charles R. Brown

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Donald Knuth

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

I went to the doctor because I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Rodney Dangerfield

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi