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“I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.”
Source : Works 'A Treatise on Gout and Dropsy' (transl. R. G. Latham) (1683)
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“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future”
Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press
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“The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.”
Source : "Why Short Advertising Copy Does NOT Sell More" by Ira Kalb, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013. 
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“Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.”
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“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;Â Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”
Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63
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“Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.”
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“Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.”
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“I don't crave publicity, you know.”
