Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

About W. H. Auden

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Wystan Hugh Auden ( WIST-ən HYOO AWD-ən; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems...

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In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

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Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

To save your world you asked this man to die.

A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.

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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

—Bertrand Russell

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Arnold Bennett visited Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers, was surprised that there was not a single vase of flowers to be seen. He remarked on their absence to Shaw: "But I thought you were so fond of flowers."
"I am," said Shaw, "and I'm very fond of children, too, but I don't chop their heads off and stand them in pots about the house.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

—Italian proverb

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