"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid."

-- Livy

#Country Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Sick Quotes

“[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!”
“Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.”

Source : "Many actresses hitting middle age find themselves desperate for good parts. Rosanna Arquette chases them down" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2003.
“I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.”
“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”
“I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.”
“I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.”
“You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.”
“Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards”

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