“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend …
“What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some …
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.” – Francis Bacon Sr.
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Charles Dickens
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it …
“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince …
“Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife” – Mary Roach
“I have found reading the Bible inspiring and entertaining. If I didn’t know better, I would swear that P.T. Barnum, L. Ron Hubbard, and Jules …
“Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.” – Francis Bacon
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” – Bruce Lee
“My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.” – Barack Obama
Wenn du im Recht bist, kannst du dir leisten, die Ruhe zu bewahren; und wenn du im Unrecht bist, kannst du dir nicht leisten, sie …
The New is not a fashion, it is a value. Barthes, Roland quotes
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? Yevtushenko, Yevgeny quotes
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by …
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” – Bruce Lee
“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish …
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity” – Joseph Addison
“They are continuing that relationship with the person who has gone on; it’s a testimony to their belief in afterlife.” – Dick George
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” – Madonna
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.” – Isaac Newton
“What we think, we become.” – Buddha
“murderer, thief, smasher, and forger” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” – Chuck Palahniuk
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. -Winfrey, Oprah
“The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.” – …
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” – Pythagoras
“If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now,” – Madonna
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“There’s no reason to have this amount of traffic coming through a private residence road.” – John Wayne
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know …
“Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.” – T.S. Eliot
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” – Martin Luther King Jr.