Survival Of The Sickest Quotes & Sayings

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all. — Philip Ridley

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too. — George Eads

If you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires. — Seneca.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. — Arlen Specter

Even logical positivists are capable of love. — A.J. Ayer

Destiny, noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also screwed. — Seanan McGuire

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men. — John Lancaster Spalding

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Governments govern, but prime ministers and presidents do not personally turn up in people's homes to tell them how to run their lives, because of the mortal danger this would present. There are laws instead. — Terry Pratchett

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted. — Henry Ward Beecher

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. — Michelangelo

Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow. — Sharon Moalem

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. — Jeremy Taylor

Mick McCarthy will have to replace Cascarino because he's quickly running out of legs. — Mark Lawrenson

Young Bride had a scratch on her neck from the knife, but no other external injuries. It seemed she was killed by the shock the drunks gave her.

After sixty-odd years, reliving the trauma of that fateful night was too much to bear.

There was no funeral procession. She was buried on the unlucky hill on the outskirts of the village.

The crickets, however, remained around her shack and continued to sing until the first snow fell. — Susumu Katsumata