Month: April 2014

There is very little difference between men and women in space. -Helen Sharman

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. -Italian Proverb

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. -Sigmund Freud

Es ist gleich falsch, Allen oder Keinem zu trauen. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day. -Lucius C. Falkland

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. -William Lyon Phelps

“I’m hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day …

Eines Tages wird der Mensch den Lärm ebenso unerbittlich bekämpfen müssen wie die Cholera und die Pest. Robert KochHeute ist der internationale Tag gegen Krach. …

Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The idol is the measure of the worshipper. -James Russell Lowell

Wenn du einen verhungernden Hund aufliest und machst ihn satt, dann wird er dich nicht beißen. Das ist der Grundunterschied zwischen Hund und Mensch. Mark …

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles. Ray …

Ehe: die Gründung einer Gesellschaft für Konfliktforschung. Wolfram Weidner

Eines Tages wird der Mensch den Lärm ebenso unerbittlich bekämpfen müssen, wie die Cholera und die Pest. Robert KochHeute ist der internationale Tag gegen Krach. …

Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can. -Queen Victoria

Siempre tuve miedo al futuro, porque en el futuro, entre otras cosas, está la muerte. Frases de Ernesto Sábato – 30/4/2014

Man kann Prinzipien aufstellen wie Wegweiser oder wie Galgen. Hans Kasper

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. -Seneca

I think and that is all that I am. -Wayne Dyer

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. -Adlai E. Stevenson

Manche leben mit einer so erstaunlichen Routine, dass es schwerfällt zu glauben, sie lebten zum ersten Male. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. -Lord Byron

“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!” William Lloyd Garrison quotes

Tema: ImaginaçãoQuando se faz apelo ao talento é porque a imaginação falha Brantôme, Pierre

Life’s more amusing than we thought. Discuss Andrew Lang quotes

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. -Thomas Carlyle

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? Elbert Hofstadter quotes

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses. Lord Burleigh quotes

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice …

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. -Alexis Carrel

Die Dummheit ist eine Weltmacht, mit der mancher viel Geld macht. Manfred Hinrich(*1926), Dr. phil., deutscher Philosoph, Philologe, Lehrer, Journalist, Kinderliederautor, Aphoristiker und Schriftsteller

Menschen mit einer neuen Idee gelten so lange als Spinner, bis sich die Sache durchgesetzt hat. (Mark Twain)

Wie begint te leven, begint te sterven. F. Quarles citaat

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. -Logan Pearsall Smith

El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino aquel que conquista ese miedo. Frases de Nelson Mandela – 29/4/2014

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. -Blaise Pascal

I cannot choose but weep, to think they would lay him i’ th’ cold ground. -William Shakespeare

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -Thomas Jefferson

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time takes away the grief of men. -Desiderius Erasmus