Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato – Platon
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato – Platon
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato – Platon
Do something every day that you don´t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
Is man merely a mistake of God´s? Or God merely a mistake of man´s?
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of life´s school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
I´m an idealist. I don´t know where I´m going, but I´m on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
My home is not a place, it is people.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar"
A good home must be made, not bought.
Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind blew it away. I wrote your name in the sand, but the waves washed it away. I wrote your name in my heart and forever it will stay.
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Unknown
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Unknown
That´s one small step for a man, but one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare, King Richard III
Although the last, not least.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare
In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Use soft words and hard arguments.
Unknown
A stumble may prevent a fall.
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A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
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