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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare /





Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein /





Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw /





When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein /





There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi /





Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de Balzac / 





I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre /





Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon /





There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de Montaigne /





Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin /





If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius /





Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci /





Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein /





No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt /





So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine /





Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain /





Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon /





In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam Chomsky /





Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein /





For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle /





Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert /





Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein /





Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht /





Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare /






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