The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778 )
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965 )
They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse, comedian (1928-2003 )
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960 )
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824 )
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827 )
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer (1803-1873 )
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
Wilhelm Stekel, physician and psychologist (1868-1940 )
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924 )
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931 )
