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Happiness is sand between the fingers in the wind. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist | |
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes | |
Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. | |
All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it. | |
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes | |
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes | |
Your questions are fake if you already know the answer. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 3 likes | |
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 7 likes | |
I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes | |
Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else. — Anonymous 4 likes | |
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Macbeth 14 likes | |
Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes | |
For the hungry everything is edible. Πεινώντι παν εστι χρήμα εδώδιμον. 4 likes | |
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes | |
In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes | |
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. | |
Bed is the perfect climate. | |
The forbidden fruit is sweetest. 3 likes | |
Football is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, and rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 | |
Anytime you learn, you gain. | |
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes | |
Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn’t do. | |
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 10 likes | |
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 13 likes | |
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes | |
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. | |
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 8 likes | |
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes | |
The gods thought otherwise. Dis aliter visum. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 34 likes | |
Four things greater than all things are, —Women and Horses and Power and War. | |
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 3 likes | |
The first step in ingratitude is to try to understand the motives of the benefactor. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 4 likes | |
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 5 likes | |
Walls have ears. 3 likes | |
We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts. | |
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 44 likes | |
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. | |
The truth brings no man a fortune. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 14 likes | |
Art is never finished, only abandoned. | |
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 5 likes |