#ect

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. ↗

— William Lilly

#after #comfortably #dead #great #having

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects. ↗

— James Lind

#being #best #condition #effects #had

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#dictatorship #elections #go #maintain #stake

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#billy #bob #had #harmony #hen

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#color #engaging #flirtatious #function #i

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#feel #feel good #fun #funny #good

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#am #clinical #definition #different #expect

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. ↗

— Macklemore

#become #expectation #i #i write #kind

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

#applicable #between #considerable #difference #faculties