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"Generations
to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked
the face of this earth"
- Albert Einstein
"Doing
easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent
is genius."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"He
who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool
forever."
- Chinese proverb
"It is better
that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
- Sir William
Blackstone
"The
leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if
they belonged to one category."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"It
is impossible to love and to be wise."
-Francis Bacon
"I hear and I
forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
- Confucius
"Our greatest
glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
"Dream as if
you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."
- James Dean
"We have two ears
and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
- Epictetus
"Politics is the
gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by
promising to protect each from the other."
- Oscar Ameringer
"Execute every
act of thy life as though it were thy last."
- Marcus Aurelius
"An error doesn't
become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
- Orlando A. Battista
"When one door
closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham
Bell
"A kiss is a
lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become
superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman
"Committee - a
group of men who keep minutes and waste hours."
- M. Berle
"To retain
respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."
- Otto von Bismarck
"An expert is a
man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
- Niels Bohr
"An expert is one
who knows more and more about less and less."
- Nicholas Murray
Butler
"The optimist
proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears
this is true."
- James B. Cabell
"Veni, vidi, vici."
[He came, he saw, he conquered.]
- Gaius Julius Caesar
"Faber est suae
quisque fortunae." [Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]
- Appius Claudius
Caecus
"It is better to
be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
- Arthur Calwell
"An honest
politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought."
- Simon Cameron
"Better to light
a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
"You cannot
prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them
from building nests in your hair."
- Chinese Proverb
"An archaeologist
is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he
is in her.
- Agatha Christie
"Everyone has his
day and some days last longer than others."
- Winston Churchill
" [As you sow, so
shall you reap.]"
- Marcus Tullius
Cicero
" [To err is
human, to forgive divine.]"
- Marcus Tullius
Cicero
"An unjust peace
is better than a just war."
- Marcus Tullius
Cicero
"Nobody can give
you wiser advice than yourself"
- Marcus Tullius
Cicero
"When you have
nothing to say, say nothing."
- Charles Caleb
Colton
" [I think,
therefore I am]"
- Rene Descartes
"We spend the
first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and
the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."
-Phyllis Diller
"There are three
kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Put your hand on
a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for
an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
- Albert Einstein
"Science without
religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein
"Two things are
infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe."
- Albert Einstein
"A smooth sea
never made a skillful mariner."
- English proverb
"The soul is that which
denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles,
to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty."
-
Alain, Definitions, 1953
. Life is a mystery to live, Not a problem to solve.Unknown
Cowards die many times before their
death. The valiant never taste of death.
Shakespeare
(Julius Caesar)