﻿America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there - Laurence J. Peter
Peter Laurence J.
Americans are healthy carriers of democracy
Gaber Giorgio
a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it (Bob Hope)
Hope Bob
a bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain - Robert Frost
Frost Robert
a bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog - Jack london
London Jack
a book is one of the fonts of joy available to us
Borges Jorge Luis
a book that can't stand two readings is not worth even one
Descalzo José Luis Martín
a business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business (Henry Ford)
Ford Henry
a cavil is a matter of principle that we have forgotten (Sir Elwyn Jones)
Jones Sir Elwyn
a child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit
Rabelais François
a child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home - Carl Burns
Burns Carl
a cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
a compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece
Erhard Ludwig
a concert to save the planet... reminds me of the Titanic
Anónimo
a conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done (Fred Allen)
Allen Fred
a consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually - Abba Eban
Eban Abba
a corporation is closer to any totalitarian institution as any that humans have devised - Noam Chomsky
Chomsky Noam
a country without documentary films is like a family without a photo album
Guzmán Patricio
a critic is a legless man who teaches running - Channing Pollock
Pollock Channing
a cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin - H.L. Mencken
Mencken H.L.
a cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future - Sydney J. Harris
Harris Sydney J.
a day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder
Da Vinci Leonardo
a dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language
Leopardi Giacomo
a dictionary is the whole universe arranged in alphabetical order
France Anatole
a diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age - Robert Frost
Frost Robert
a disadvantageous peace is better than the most righteous war
Erasmus von Rotterdam Desiderius
a fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself - Kenneth Williams
Williams Kenneth
a fiancé is a happy man who is ready to cease being so
Poncela Enrique Jardiel
a free woman is the exact opposite of a fickle woman
Beauvoir Simone de
a friend is not someone who wipes your tears; he's someone who doesn't make you cry - Anonymous
Anonymous
a friend is someone who can readily accept your silence
Sbarbaro Camillo
a fruitful conversation springs only from minds absorbed in reinforcing their own confusion
Cioran Emile
a good dictionary is like a mirror: if you know how to use it well, you can find what you already suspected
Anónimo
a good man is intelligent, and a bad man is also an idiot. Moral and intellectual characteristics go together
Borges Jorge Luis
a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a re-reader (Vladimir Nabokov)
Nabokov Vladimir
a good review from the critics is just another stay of execution - Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman Dustin
a government is the only vessel that leaks from the top - James Reston
Reston James
a journalist is someone whose business it is to explain to others what he personally does not understand (Lord Alfred Northcliff)
Lord Northcliff Alfred
a jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer - Robert Frost
Frost Robert
a language is a dialect with an army and a navy - Joshua A. Fishman
Fishman Joshua A.
a lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one
Maupassant Guy de
a lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself - Lord Brougham
Brougham Lord Henry
a learned man is an idler who kills time by study (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
a liar should keep in mind that to be believed he shouldn't tell more lies than are necessary
Svevo Italo
a literary classic is one of those books that leaves the reader wondering what more there is to the story
Calvino Italo
a little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation - Clarence Edwin Ayres
Ayres Clarence Edwin
a man alone is always in bad company
Valéry Paul
a man can't ride on your back unless it's bent (Martin Luther King)
King Martin Luther
a man generally has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good, and a real one (J. Pierpoint Morgan)
Morgan John Pierpont
a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone - Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau Henry David
a man is rich once he has become familiar with scarcity
Epicurus
a man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy, that's the only reason. That's all, that's all! Whoever discovers this will become happy instantly (Fedor Michailovich Dostoevskij)
Dostoevskij Fedor Michailovich
a man who does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good (H. W. Beecher)
Beecher Henry Ward
a man who does not lose his mind over certain things has no mind to lose
Lessing Gotthold Ephraim
a man who won't die for something is not fit to live - Martin Luther King
King Martin Luther
a man with no dreams, no illusions and no ideals would be a monster, a wild boar with a degree in pure mathematics
De André Fabrizio
a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes - Thomas Henry Huxley
Huxley Thomas Henry
a man, any man, is worth more than a flag, any flag
Chillida Eduardo
a memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer (Dean Acheson)
Acheson Dean Gooderham
a myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes - James K. Feibleman
Feibleman James K.
a natural language is the archive where the experiences, knowledge and beliefs of a community are stored
Carreter Fernando Lázaro
a painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints
Picasso Pablo
a paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on - William S. Burroughs
Burroughs William S.
a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. A theologian is the one who finds it - H.L. Mencken
Mencken H.L.
a poet understands Nature better than a scientist
Novalis
a political campaign costs much more than an honest man can pay - Anonymous
Anonymous
a politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
a politician thinks about the coming elections, the statesman about the next generations
Bismarck Otto von
a prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
a process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to obviously be progress, though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known (Bertrand Russell)
Russell Bertrand
a proverb is a short sentence based on long experience
Cervantes Miguel de
a psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing - Joey Adams
Adams Joey
a real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us (WH Auden)
Auden Wystan Hugh
a reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat - James J. Walker
Walker James J.
a scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales
Curie Marie
a sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson Ralph Waldo
a sensible conclusion is that languages are 'difficult' in inverse proportion to the strength of motivation for learning them (Reg Hindley)
Hindley Reg
a shadow is lost in too much light... or too much darkness
Ovadia Moni
a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use - Washington Irving
Washington Irving
a slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him - Ezra Pound
Pound Ezra
a smile is the shortest distance between two people (Víctor Borge)
Borge Víctor
a sociologist is someone who goes to a football match to look at the spectators
Bufalino Gesualdo
a specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less, ultimately knowing everything... about nothing!
Somma Luciano
a speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener
Montaigne Michel de
a strong foe is better than a weak friend (Edward Dahlberg)
Dahlberg Edward
a synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of - Burt Bacharach
Bacharach Burt
a tooth ought to be valued much more than a diamond
Cervantes Miguel de
a tragic indicator of the values of our civilization is that there's no business like war business (Douglas Mattern)
Mattern Douglas
a traitor is someone who leaves a party to join another and a convert is someone who leaves this other party to join yours
Clemenceau Georges
a translation done badly is not a translation
Anónimo
a woman is a present that chooses you
Brassens Georges
a word is nothing but a noise and books are nothing but paper
Claudel Paul
act well your part, there all the honor lies (Edgar Lee Masters)
Masters Edgar Lee
advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths - Edgar A. Shoaff
Shoaff Edgar
advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it
Leacock Stephen
after all, it's your relationships with other people that give value to life
Humboldt von Wilhelm
after all, the language is our homeland
Cela Camilo José
after discrediting virtues, our century succeeded in discrediting vices
Dávila Nicolás
after suffering so much, at least there is the recompense of dying like dogs
Pavese Cesare
after three appearances on TV, any fool being interviewed says what he thinks and what others think too
Biagi Enzo
age has whitened the hair of some men while leaving their hearts unaffected, which remain fresh and young and beat just as strongly for every good and beautiful thing
Zamenhof Ludoviko
albeit there are as many grammairiennes as grammariens, indeed more...
Erasmus von Rotterdam Desiderius
all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others - Cyril Connolly
Connolly Cyril
all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation
Russell Bertrand
all gods were immortal
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
all happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
Tolstoy Lev
all ideas are already in the brain, just as all statues are in the marble
Dossi Carlo
all is worth nothing and the rest is worth even less
Greiff León de
all men have a woman in their thoughts, and married men have another at home
Serrat Noel Clarasó
all men play a role except, perhaps, some actors
Ionesco Eugene
all men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers - Orison Swett Marden
Marden Orison Swett
all our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing
Maeterlinck Maurice
all she needs do is shout the truth in everyone's face. No one will believe it and everyone will think her mad!
Pirandello Luigi
all speech, written or spoken, is a dead language
Stevenson Robert Louis
all that which is invented, is true
Flaubert Gustave
all the brains in the world are powerless against any kind of stupidity that is in vogue
La Fontaine Jean de
all the glory of the world lies in a grain of corn
Martí José
all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances
Shakespeare William
all things considered, nothing is beautiful
Horatius Quintus Flaccus
all tramps and beggars are equal under the law
Dossi Carlo
all universal moral principles are idle fantasies
Sade Donatien-Alphonse-François
all we are saying is give peace a chance - John Lennon
Lennon John
all would live long, but none would be old - Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Benjamin
almost all physicians have their favourite diseases - Henry Fielding
Fielding Henry
although death is terrifying, knowing that you are living to eternity without ever being able to die is even more terrifying
Chekhov Anton
among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken
Rega Card Orson
amusing yourself almost always means a different way of being bored
Régismanset Charles
an Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country - Sir Henry Wotton
Wotton Sir Henry
an absolutely logical language without its own idioms would be lifeless and too mechanical
Zamenhof Ludoviko
an actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening
Brando Marlon
an actor is a sincere liar
Camus Albert
an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her
Christie Agatha
an arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use - JG Ballard
Ballard James Graham
an e-mail cannot express the sentiment of a tear
Saramago José
an editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff
Stevenson Adlai
an expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field
Bohr Niels
an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
an incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer
Younger Evelle
an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself
Camus Albert
an intellectual is the type of person who has bound those books he has not read
Longanesi Leo
an international gang of exchange speculators has mindlessly and heartlessly created a world of inequality, misery and horror. Their criminal hegemony must be ended without delay
Ziegler Jean
an optimist is he who believes that things cannot get any worse
Morandotti Alessandro
and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared
Machiavelli Niccolò
and of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst
Defoe Daniel
and so we find ourselves with this simple, two-pronged truism: firstly, we are a community of people speaking the same language and, secondly, speaking it is one of the ways of marking us as human beings
Paz Octavio
and to avoid it being stolen... money is entrusted to the banks
Anónimo
and yet, the contrary is always true as well
Longanesi Leo
anthropoid apes and baboons don't speak because, if they could, human beings would force them to work
Le Grand Antoine
any kind of divorce is a patching-up exercise on something that has ended up badly. Battling to get divorce legalised is a battle behind the lines. Marriage should be fought against
Bianciardi Luciano
any man worthy of the name must reproach himself for the reproaches directed against any other man
Martí José
any one of us would term barbaric what is not habitual to us
Montaigne Michel de
any private property is necessarily under a 'social mortgage'
Paolo VI
any woman would like to be faithful. The difficulty is finding a man to be faithful to
Dietrich Marlene
anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office
Broder David
anyone being born should exercise great prudence in the choice of place, year, and parents
Bufalino Gesualdo
anyone can speak obscurely, but very few with clarity
Galilei Galileo
anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulding
Boulding Kenneth
anyone who holds power for even one minute commits a crime
Pintor Luigi
anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Kafka Franz
anyone who teaches people to die teaches them to live
Montaigne Michel de
anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality
Verne Jules
apart from a few men, all animals have a soul
Anónimo
approbation from others is stimulating, but it is as well sometimes to distrust it
Cézanne Paul
art is a call to which too many who are not called give an answer
Longanesi Leo
art is a hammer to beat the world, not a mirror to reflect it
Majakovskij Vladimir
art is an investment of capital, culture an excuse
Flaiano Ennio
art is the lie that makes us realize truth
Picasso Pablo
art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
Picasso Pablo
as I didn't mind being born, I don't mind dying
García Lorca Federico
as a body everyone is single, but as a soul, never
Hesse Hermann
as a rule I use only words that enhance the silence
Galeano Eduardo
as fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless - Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
as in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance than from knowledge
Rochefoucauld François Duc de La
as long as I still have something to do, I will have done nothing
Caesar Caius Iulius
as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it
Cavett Dick
as long as there is oil, there will be no peace in the Middle East
Anónimo
as long as translations exist, language is a vehicle, not a destination
Tharoor Shashi
as long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular
Wilde Oscar
as men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all
Pascal Blaise
as regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve
Brecht Bertolt
as soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common
Zangwill Israel
ask no questions and you will be told no lies
Anónimo
ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so - John Stuart Mill
Mill John Stuart
asking an entrepreneur not to cheat on his income is like asking a dentist not to cheat on invoices
Anónimo
at present, with the exception of tobacco, alcohol and television, most drugs are illegal, and yet our kids can always find them on every school corner
Chao Manu
at times it's better to strive to be happy in misfortune by accepting it, rather than fighting or trying to overcome it
Maeterlinck Maurice
Berlusconi is one of those illnesses cured by vaccine. To get over Berlusconi you need a good injection of Berlusconi
Montanelli Indro
Britain is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex (Jackie Mason)
Mason Jackie
bad books engender bad habits and bad habits engender good books
Descartes René
barometer. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having
Bierce Ambrose
base impulses dominate our lives, just like 50,000 years ago
Levi Montalcini Rita
basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing - Wernher von Braun
von Braun Wernher
be frank and explicit with your lawyer... It will then be his job to make everything confused - Anonymous
Anonymous
be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down - Wilson Mizner
Mizner Wilson
be unselfish: respect the selfishness of others
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so
Lord Chesterfield
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Anonymous
become the change you want to see in the world
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
before anything else, emotion! Comprehension only comes afterwards!
Gauguin Paul
before changing your mind make sure that you already have an opinion to change
Brie Albert
before thinking about how to educate, one would do well to clarify what results one wishes to obtain - Bertrand Russell
Russell Bertrand
before we came, the world lacked nothing; after we depart, the world will lack nothing
Khayyam Omar
being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men - Joseph Conrad
Conrad Joseph
being childless is a happy misfortune
Euripide
being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important
McCarthy Eugene Joseph
being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
Dávila Nicolás
being young and not revolutionary is even a biological contradiction
Allende Salvador
believe in everything you are told about the world - nothing is too awful to be impossible
Balzac Honoré de
beware of defining as intelligent only those who share your opinions
Ojetti Ugo
bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same
Jong Erica
blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed
Bennett W.C.
book-lovers with shelves full of books and who do not even turn a page can be compared to eunuchs in a harem
Dossi Carlo
books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content
Valéry Paul
books have their pride too - when they are lent out they don't return
Fontane Theodor
books will be the salvation of mankind
Voltaire
boredom is an infirmity for which the remedy is work; pleasure is only a palliative
Lewis Duke of
brevity is the soul of wit
Shakespeare William
bureaucracy is a giant mechanism run by small people
Balzac Honoré de
bureaucracy: a difficulty for every solution (H. Samuel)
Samuel H.
but the universe is infinite
Epicurus
by coming to resemble what we are not, we cease to be what we are
Jünger Ernst
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? - Jules Feiffer
Feiffer Jules
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it
France Anatole
capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity
Morales Evo
castilian is the lingua franca of American Indians
Fuentes Carlos
caution: Marx's corpse is still breathing 
Parra Nicanor
cease to hope and you will cease to fear
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions - Aldous Huxley
Huxley Aldous
childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking and feeling and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs
Rousseau Jean-Jacques
children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything
Leopardi Giacomo
children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them
Baldwin James
chips are one of the most spiritual creations of Parisian genius
Sailland Maurice Edmond dit Curnonsky
civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them
Whitehead Alfred North
civilized people can't satisfy their sexual instincts to the full without love - Bertrand Russell
Russell Bertrand
clarity is the philosopher's courtesy
Ortega y Gasset José
cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing - Phyllis Diller
Diller Phyllis
clothes are semiotic artifices: in other words, machines of communication
Eco Umberto
coca cola is good for the health... of the US economy
Anónimo
conscience is a dog that doesn't bar our way forward, but we can't stop it from barking
Chamfort Nicolas de
conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking
Mencken H.L.
conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old
Chisholm Brock
consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago
Berenson Bernard
consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country
Bierce Ambrose
corruption is like garbage, it must be removed every day
Pichardo Pagaza Ignacio
courage is the fear of being thought a coward
Smith Horace
creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training
Freud Anna
creative people are the opposite of civilised people
Camus Albert
crimes committed with automobiles are called accidents
Galeano Eduardo
culture has benefited above all from books on which the publishers have lost
Fuller Thomas
culture is always like that - layer upon layer of quotation after quotation, of ideas that give rise to other ideas, lively exchanges of words that span time and space
Montero Rosa
culture is an instrument manipulated by school-teachers to produce school-teachers who, in turn, will produce school-teachers
Weil Simone
culture is not to read a lot, neither to know a lot - it means to experience a lot
Pessoa Fernando
culture is what is left in man when he has forgotten everything
Herriot Edouard
curse that instant of happiness that has made me unhappy for evermore
Trincale Franco
cursed be the soldier who fires on his people
Bolivar Simon
cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be
Bierce Ambrose
darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall - Oliver Herford
Herford Oliver
dear Democracy come back home as it's not too late
Fossati Ivano
death is a state of perfection, the only one within reach of mortals
Cioran Emile
death is expiated by living
Ungaretti Giuseppe
death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't
Epicurus
death may be the best part of life
Silva Carlos
death used to be part of me until it abandoned me for someone else
Paz Octavio
death, until now, is life's most concrete invention
Cioran Emile
defining a word is like catching a butterfly on the wing
Holanda Ferreira Aurélio Buarque de
democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear
Coren Alan
democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor - James Russell Lowell
Lowell James Russell
democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance
Mencken H.L.
democracy is fragile and if too many flags are raised to it, it falls apart
Biagi Enzo
democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them
de Flers Robert
democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner - James Bovard
Bovard James
democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few - George Bernard Shaw
Shaw George Bernard
democracy: thus being unable to make justice strong, we have determined that strength is justice
Pascal Blaise
desire nothing and you will be the richest man in the world
Cervantes Miguel de
despots can change laws but not habits
Benavente y Martínez Jacinto
development is a voyage with more castaways than survivors
Galeano Eduardo
development is like a dead star whose light we can still see, even though it has been dead for ages and for ever
Rist Gilbert
dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true
Johnson Samuel
dictionaries need to be corrected continually, like maps
Dossi Carlo
digital is speed and efficiency. Paper is pleasure
Annoscia Giuseppe
disarmament conferences amount to fire prevention exercises by pyromaniacs
Osborne John
discoveries are of no help to the Third World, they just compound the existing injustice
Kapuściński Ryszard
dissent is the highest form of patriotism
Jefferson Thomas
do arms factories contribute to combatting unemployment?
Anónimo
do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live
Flaubert Gustave
do not try to live forever. You will not succeed
Shaw George Bernard
do not use that foreign word 'ideals'. We have that excellent native word 'lies'
Ibsen Henrik
do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm
Colette
do we have to cohabit with the mafia even in sport?
Cattaneo Carlo
do you believe then that our dear God is Catholic?
Lichtenberg Georg Christoph
do you want lots of people coming to your aid? Try and avoid the need for it
Manzoni Alessandro
do you want to damage someone's reputation? Speak well of them
Siegfried André
do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power
Bakunin Mikhail
doctors. Lucky men. Their successes gleam in the sun... and their mistakes are buried
Montaigne Michel de
does the death penalty make any sense to those condemned to die?
Anónimo
does the end justify the means? Thanks, Moggi
Anonimo
doesn't it scare you, a world of ignoramuses with no memory other than that of their computers?
Bloom Harold Irving
doing no evil is very good. But doing no good is very bad
Hurtado Padre Alberto
don't allow the imposition of the liberty of speech before having the liberty of thought
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
don't ask me to be kind; just ask me to behave as if I was
Renard Jules
don't be so humble - you are not that great - Golda Meir
Meir Golda
don't shout for help at night. You may wake your neighbors
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
don't wait for the right opportunity: create it
Shaw George Bernard
don't waste time looking for obstacles: it may be that none exist
Kafka Franz
doping for an athlete is like lying and stealing for a politician. Hard to avoid
Anónimo
doubt is one of the names of intelligence
Borges Jorge Luis
doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is ridiculous
Voltaire
dream and you will be free in spirit, fight and you will be free in life
Guevara Ernesto Che
dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them - John Updike
Updike John
ducks lay their eggs in silence while hens cackle like madwomen. The result? Everybody eats hens' eggs
Ford Henry
duty is what one expects from others
Wilde Oscar
England and America are two countries divided by a common language (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
each moment of ours is never the same and we are never the same from one moment to the next, one period of time to the next
Heraclitus
education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices - Laurence J. Peter
J. Peter Laurence
education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance - Will Durant
Durant Will
education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Wilde Oscar
education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Forbes Malcolm Steve
enough of drugs in sport: ban testing!
Anonymous
even an ass can go to Mecca, but that does not make an ass a pilgrim
Proverbio arabo
even if you travel down its every path, you will not find the limits of the soul: such are the depths of its logos
Heraclitus
every attraction is reciprocal
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
every conviction is a prison
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
every idiot confuses price and value
Machado Antonio
every individual stands alone at the heart of the world transfixed by a ray of sunlight; and suddenly it is evening
Quasimodo Salvatore
every man has a task in life and it is never the one he would have chosen
Hesse Hermann
every man is as God made him, and often worse
Cervantes Miguel de
every so often it is well to realize that even today, even now, we are shaping the nostalgia that will give warmth to a prospective tomorrow
Benedetti Mario
every thought is an exception to a general rule - which is not thinking
Valéry Paul
every word carries its own memory
Pérsico Eduardo
every word has been, at sometime, a neologism
Borges Jorge Luis
everyone betrays the defects of their own qualities
Olivetti Adriano
everyone only listens to what he understands
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
everyone smiles in the same language
Anonymous
everyone takes the limits of his field of vision for the confines of the world
Schopenhauer Arthur
everyone worries about rhinos, but crab louses are in danger of extinction too
Anónimo
everything in life is bearable, except for many days of uninterrupted happiness
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
everything is dangerous. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living
Wilde Oscar
everything is ridiculous when one thinks of death
Bernhard Thomas
everything left unsaid is said forever
Cortázar Julio
everything we define today as immoral has in some place and at some time been considered moral. What guarantee do we have that history will not go back on itself?
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
everything we eat without really needing to is plunder from the stomachs of the poor
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge
Knoll Erwin
everytime I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race
Wells HG
expansion presupposes complexity, and complexity decadence
Parkinson Cyril N.
experience is a flame which cannot illuminate without burning
Pérez Galdós Benito
experience is a lottery ticket bought after the draw has been made
Mistral Gabriela
experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again
Jones Franklin P.
experience: a comb that life gives you after you've lost your hair
Stern Judith
'for your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction - Janet Frame
Frame Janet
...from his windows he listens to the life of the world and men and knows he's excluded, but he does not kill himself, because a vestige of faith tells him he must bear this suffering in his heart to the end, this immense suffering, which represents what, in the end, will die
Hesse Hermann
facts are always popping up to confuse the theories
Dossi Carlo
failure went to my head
Flaiano Ennio
faithfulness is the art of committing adultery only with one's mind
Décoly
faithfulness lives where love is stronger than instinct
Carvel Paul
false impressions still persist in spite of reason and knowledge
Leopardi Giacomo
familial affections are put on only for special occasions
Kraus Karl
fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim - George Santayana
Santayana George
fashion is always a reflection of its time but unfortunately we forget it when it's stupid
Chanel Coco
few see us as we are, but everyone sees what we pretend to be
Machiavelli Niccolò
few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have won office - John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith Kenneth
finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears - Rober W. Sarnoff
Sarnoff Robert W.
first be free - then ask for freedom
Pessoa Fernando
flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs
Chapman George
follow the example of the best, those who give up everything to build a better world
Allende Salvador
football is popular because stupidity is popular
Borges Jorge Luis
for an Indian, the gold of the sun is enough and more
Parra Violeta
for each of us, the past has the greatest attraction because it's the only thing we know and truly love
Pasolini Pier Paolo
for every complex problem, there is always a simple solution - that is wrong
Mencken H.L.
for every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears
Paz Octavio
for how many will it still be worth living, when we no longer die?
Canetti Elias
for many women the shortest path to perfection is tenderness
Mauriac François
for money you can have everything it is said. - No that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honour; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money
Garborg Arne
for most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed
Fadiman Clifton
for some communists, if you are an anticommunist, you are a fascist. This is so incomprehensible as to say that if you are not a catholic, you are a mormon
Borges Jorge Luis
for those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while
Burbank Luther
fortunately Bush has come to the defence of democracy
Anónimo
frankly speaking, you sometimes have to get annoyed to make things work well
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
freedom does not exist, but the quest for freedom does, and it is this quest that makes us free
Fuentes Carlos
freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of a party only - no matter how big its membership may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always only freedom for the man who thinks differently about it
Luxemburg Rosa
freedom is always and only the freedom of those who think otherwise
Luxemburg Rosa
freedom is like poetry - it doesn't have to have epithets, it's total freedom!
Biagi Enzo
freedom of the press is perhaps the one that has suffered the most from the slow degradation of the idea of liberty
Camus Albert
friends are that part of the human race one can be human with - George Santayana
Santayana George
friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves - Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith Oliver
friendship is a product of loyalty, not of passive allegiance
De Bortoli Ferruccio
friendship is the childhood of love
Anónimo
friendships are like marriages: only one in ten is for love
De Amicis Edmondo
from smokers, we can learn tolerance. I've never met anybody who protested against non smokers
Pertini Sandro
from the brain, and the brain alone, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our pains and griefs
Hippocrates
fur: a skin that changes its animal
Scholl A.
future generations' international lingua franca will certainly be just a programmed language
Zamenhof Ludoviko
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians - Samuel Butler
Butler Samuel
God created man and, seeing he was not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion so that he would feel his solitude more
Valéry Paul
God will forgive me. It's his job
Heine Heinrich
God, like a comma, can change everything
Guerrasio G.
Good cannot be vanquished, Evil can (Rabindranâth Tagore)
Tagore Rabindranath
generosity can, unfortunately, also amount to good business
Ojetti Ugo
generous souls are more offended by flattery than insult
Tommaseo Nicolò
give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare William
giving in to the vice of obedience is always comfortable
Milani Don Lorenzo
globalization is a process that enables the powerful to exploit the weak
Llano Alejandro
going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car - Laurence J. Peter
Peter Laurence J.
governments never learn. Only people learn - Milton Friedman
Friedman Milton
grasp the subject, the words will follow
Cato Marcus Porcius
great loves take off in a very precise way - as soon as you set eyes on her you ask yourself: who is that idiot?
Flaiano Ennio
greatness does not consist in receiving honours but in deserving them
Aristotle
grown up? Never
Pasolini Pier Paolo
guilt lasts as long as the feeling of remorse
Borges Jorge Luis
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul (Marilyn Monroe)
Monroe Marilyn
half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it - Robert Frost
Frost Robert
happiness is a gift that comes to he who did not seek it
Chekhov Anton
happiness is a marvellous thing: the more you give,  the more you are left with
Pascal Blaise
happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults
Szasz Thomas
happiness is getting on with yourself
Buñuel Luis
happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived
Swift Jonathan
happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember - Oscar Levant
Levant Oscar
happiness lies in being free, that is, in desiring nothing
Epitteto
happy is he who laughs at himself; he will not go short of entertainment
Bourguiba Habib
having had a good upbringing nowadays is a great disadvantage as it excludes you from so many things - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
having no vices adds nothing to virtue
Machado Antonio
he hoisted his own flag high....so that he didn't have to look at it
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
he makes no friend who never made a foe
Tennyson Alfred
he who asks for nothing expects everything
Rostand Jean
he who does not punish evil, commands it to be done
da Vinci Leonardo
he who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals
Lichtenberg Georg Christoph
he who is so fortunate as to have nothing more to gain is not as lucky as the man who has nothing to lose
Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de
he who knows how to laugh is master of the world
Leopardi Giacomo
he who pays no attention to what his neighbour does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time
Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus
heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much
Borges Jorge Luis
help me understand what I am telling you about and I will explain it better
Machado Antonio
here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I - John Dryden
Dryden John
here lives a free man. No one serves him
Camus Albert
heresy is only another word for freedom of thought - Graham Greene
Greene Graham
high school in our time amounts to little more than day care for virtual adults in which some learning might incidentally take place, much of it of dubious value - James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler James Howard
his conscience was clear; indeed he never used it
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
his designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage
Fielding Henry
history teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives
Eban Abba
history teaches us the lesson of war but we tend to forget it all the same
Mussolini Benito
history: an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools
Bierce Ambrose
hope is alright for breakfast, but it makes a very poor dinner
Bacon Francis
how do you recognise a work of art? How can it be kept apart, even if only for a moment, from its critics, commentators, its indefatigable plagiarists, its defacers and its final destiny in solitude? Simple-just translate it
Bolaño Roberto
how easy it is to write difficultly
Colorni Eugenio
how is it that the Mafia 'invests' by giving away drugs outside schools and publishers don't do the same with books?
Anónimo
how many lives there are in one life, how many men there are in one man
Papini Giovanni
how many worries simply flow away when you decide to be somebody instead of just something
Chanel Coco
human beings can be grouped into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are bored to death, and those who are worried to death - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
human history, what with salvation and perdition, is ambiguous. We don't even know whether we are masters of our destiny
Bobbio Norberto
human nature: what makes you swear at a pedestrian when you are driving and at the driver when you are a pedestrian
Oren Arnold
human rights are not respected in Cuba, except in Guantánamo
Anónimo
humanity is as it is, it's not a question of changing it but getting to know it
Flaubert Gustave
humankind cannot stand very much reality
Jung Carl
husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives
Monroe Marilyn
hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue
Rochefoucauld François de La
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
I also read books, many books: but I learn less from them than I do from life. The only book that has taught me a lot is the dictionary. The dictionary, how I adore it! But I also love the road, an even more wonderful dictionary
Petrolini Ettore
I am I plus my circumstances
Ortega y Gasset José
I am a heavy burden on a person, I almost suffocate him and demand that he should carry me; and, without relieving him, I persuade myself and others that I am sorry and want to make it easy for him by all possible means, but not by allowing him to get rid of my weight
Tolstoy Leo
I am a part of all that I have met - Alfred Tennyson
Tennyson Alfred
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first - William Congreve
Congreve William
I am in favour of legalizing all drugs. This is for one reason: I don't like the mafia
Chao Manu
I am never so busy as when I have nothing to do
Scipione Publio Cornelio (l'Africano)
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace - Albert Einstein
Einstein Albert
I am not young enough to know everything - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
I am of the opinion that law must be respected never forgetting to apply it in a way to protect the weaker ones among us
Prodi Romano
I am optimistic for the future of pessimism
Rostand Jean
I am surely mad; but if I am not, then neither should the others be free (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
I am unable to hold translators in any kind of regard, because otherwise I would begin to write with an impersonal and flat language completely devoid of character
Grass Günter
I believe I have found the missing link between animals and civilized man. It is us
Konrad Lorenz
I believe that some day we will deserve to be free of governments
Borges Jorge Luis
I call a man, one who is master of his tongue
Milani Don Lorenzo
I can't change the past, but I can change my memories
Anónimo
I cannot afford to waste my time making money (Alexander Agassiz)
Agassiz Alexander
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me (Nadine Gordimer)
Gordimer Nadine
I carry inside of me a heavy burden: the weight of the riches I did not give to others (Rabindranath Tagore)
Tagore Rabindranath
I committed the worst sin ever: I was not happy
Borges Jorge Luis
I consider as barbaric any offence to a human being because he belongs to a different people, language, religion or social class
Zamenhof Ludoviko
I could never figure how they can teach boys how to bomb villages with napalm - and not let them write the word 'fuck' on their airplanes - Marlon Brando
Brando Marlon
I dedicate this edition to my enemies who have helped me so much in my career
Cela Camilo José
I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
I desire little, and that little I desire, I desire it little
San Francesco d'Assisi
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use
Galilei Galileo
I do not meddle willingly in my own private affairs
Kraus Karl
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards - William Somerset Maugham
Maugham Wìlliam Somerset
I don't drink alcohol. But not because of virtue, but because there is a drink which I like better, and that is water
Borges Jorge Luis
I don't ever write my name on books that I buy; I only do so after having read them as only then can I say they're mine
Dossi Carlo
I don't have time to be in a hurry (John Wesley)
Wesley John
I don't know whether God exists, but if he doesn't he makes a better impression
Benni Stefano
I don't want to demonstrate anything, I just want to show
Fellini Federico
I firmly reserve the right to contradict myself
Claudel Paul
I give no alms. I am not poor enough for that
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own (J.P. Donleavy)
Donleavy J.P.
I have always planned my life so that I could die with three hundred thousand things on my conscience but not a single regret
De André Fabrizio
I have learned that a life is worthless but nothing is worth more than a life
Malraux André
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution - Wernher von Braun
von Braun Wernher
I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
I heartily believe revolution to be the source of legal right
Castro Fidel
I know nothing of today's literature. For some time now my contemporary writers have been the Greeks
Borges Jorge Luis
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I just do not know
Cocteau Jean
I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talk. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don't understand what I said - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
I love women, but I don't admire them (Charles Chaplin)
Chaplin Charlie
I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. If only they were not conjugations, but reality
Moreno Mario (Cantinflas)
I loved, I was loved, the sun caressed my face. Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we're even!
Nervo Amado
I made this drawing in less than five minutes, but it took me sixty years to be able to do that
Renoir Auguste
I need poetry to express what cannot be said
Hierro José
I need to be needed
Anónimo
I need to feel the same respect for my mother as one feels for an ideal
Frank Anne
I never intended to get close to the people with my writings. Actually, I never intended to get close to anybody
Borges Jorge Luis
I paint things as I think them, not as I see them
Picasso Pablo
I possess nothing so completely as that which I have given away
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
I quote others only in order to express myself the better
Montaigne Michel de
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction - Aneurin Bevan
Bevan Aneurin
I really do feel that genuine translation of text requires understanding of the text, and understanding requires having lived in the world and dealt with the physical world and is not just a question of manipulating words - Douglas Hofstadter
Hofstadter Douglas
I see no error made which I might not have committed myself
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my dog (Emperor Charles V)
Emperor Charles V
I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death (Anne Frank)
Frank Anne
I support the legalisation of drugs... at least in sport
Badiali Massimiliano
I think, therefore I exist
Descartes René
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees
Neruda Pablo
I wanted perfection and I ruined what was working well
Monet Claude Oscar
I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest - Martin Luther King
King Martin Luther
I will look at all lands as if they belonged to me, and at mine as if they belonged to everyone
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
I wish only not to have desires
Anónimo
I would like the death certificate of every human being to be written in the same language as his birth certificate
Brecht Bertolt
I would like to see priests getting married, hetero-and homo-sexuals alike
Anónimo
I would rather be an optimist and wrong than a pessimist and right
Gödel Kurt
I'd rather annoy with the truth than please with adulation
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
I'm a man with the same limits of anyone of my generation. But I've never said what I didn't want to say, even if I've not always said what I wanted to say
Biagi Enzo
I'm no communist - I can't afford to be one
Flaiano Ennio
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men - George Eliot
Eliot George
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. Being here in America doesn't make you an American (Malcolm X)
Malcolm X
I'm still an atheist, thank God
Buñuel Luis
I'm surrounded by priests who harp on about their authority not being of this world, but who, all the same, help themselves to and greedily grasp anything that comes within reach
Bonaparte Napoleon
I'm their leader, I've got to follow them
Ledru-Rollin Alexandre Auguste
I'm worried as I'm beginning to have ideas that I don't agree with
Altan Francesco Tullio
I've a grand memory for forgetting - Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson Robert Louis
I've always been astonished by the absurd turns rivers have to make to flow under every bridge
Grillo Beppe
I've always believed that if there's somewhere in the world where there are no pure-breds, that place is definitely Italy. In fact, our ancestors had too many opportunities for amusement
Biagi Enzo
I've been on a calendar, but never on time (Marilyn Monroe)
Monroe Marilyn
I've done a peaceful coexistence deal with time - it doesn't pursue me nor do I flee from it, but one day we'll meet
Lago Mario
I've never let school interfere with my education - Mark Twain
Twain Mark
I've spent my life proving the rule
Guitry Sacha
Italians are always ready to rush to the aid of winners
Flaiano Ennio
Italians lose wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars (Winston Churchill)
Churchill Winston
Italy is decaying into a state of affluence that translates into selfishness, stupidity, lack of culture, gossip, self-righteousness, compulsion, conventionality - fascism is now lending itself in some way to contribute to this decay
Pasolini Pier Paolo
idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem
Galsworthy John
idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive
Buckley William F.
idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power - Aldous Huxley
Huxley Aldous
ideas are more powerful than nuclear weapons
Castro Fidel
if God had not made woman, He wouldn't have made the flower either
Hugo Victor
if I could write the beauty of your eyes
Shakespeare William
if I have written such a long letter, it means that I did not have enough time to make it shorter
Pascal Blaise
if I was an emperor, I would start by making a dictionary, in order to give a meaning to every word
Confucio
if I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone
Bolaño Roberto
if a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Pound Ezra
if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties - Francis Bacon
Bacon Francis
if a man would move the world, he must first move himself
Socrates
if a master can't do without his slave, which of the two is a free man?
Camus Albert
if a woman is shabbily dressed it's her dress that's noticed, but if she is impeccably dressed it's she who is noticed
Chanel Coco
if a woman surrenders it is only because she has won
Camarota Aldo
if culture has become merchandise it is little wonder that men too have come to the same end
Anonymous
if inspiration comes to me, it will find me painting
Picasso Pablo
if it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it
Robbins Tom
if it's possible to donate organs to save a patient's life, why not donate proteins to save those dying of hunger?
Anónimo
if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear - George Orwell
Orwell George
if one had to learn all the laws, there would be no time left to break them
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
if only it were as easy to uncover the truth as to demonstrate the falsehood
Cicero Marcus Tullius
if only we were able to become united... how beautiful and near at hand the future would be
Guevara Ernesto Che
if people better understood the danger of using certain words, dictionaries would be displayed in bookstore windows wrapped in a red band: 'Explosive. Handle with care'
Maurois Andrè
if people knew themselves better they would learn to hate themselves
Flaiano Ennio
if spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
if the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them
Stevenson Adlai
if the youth of today effectively disapprove of the omnipotent and mysterious mafia it could very well cease to be a pervasive nightmare
Borsellino Paolo
if there is no price to pay, neither is there any value
Einstein Albert
if there is violence in football, it's because today in Italy winning is all that counts
Sacchi Arrigo
if there were no prisons, we would realise that we are all in chains
Blanchot Maurice
if they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night
Davis Angela
if two people love each other there can be no happy end to it - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway Ernest
if voting changed anything, they would make it illegal - Anonymous
Anonymous
if we want an end to ethnic conflict we have to invest less in war and more in the culture of peace
Mayor Zaragoza Federico
if we want things to change, the banks should be occupied and the television should be blown up. There is no other revolutionary solution possible
Bianciardi Luciano
if you are a fatalist, what can you do about it?
Edwards-Duff Ann
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry
Chekhov Anton
if you are so intelligent, how come you've become rich?
Anónimo
if you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused - Walter F. Mondale
Mondale Walter F.
if you do not expect the unexpected you will not unearth it, so evasive and improbable is it
Heraclitus
if you explain yourself with an example, I won't understand a thing
Flaiano Ennio
if you give the impression that you need something, you will get nothing. To make money you have to appear to be rich
Dumas Alexander
if you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself
Hesse Hermann
if you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke
Behan Brendan Francis
if you have faith in yourself, others will have faith in you, too
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
if you help someone in trouble you can be sure that they'll remember it ... the next time they're in trouble
Prochnow H.V.
if you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat
Beauvoir Simone de
if you love what you do, it will never be a job
Confucio
if you say yes to everything and everyone it's as if you don't exist
Ben Jelloun Tahar
if you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything
Twain Mark
if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever
Orwell George
if you want an old age that lasts many years, start being old soon
Cato Marcus Porcius
if you want friendship, gentleness and poetry to cross your path through life, take them with you
Duhamel Georges
if you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves - Don Marquis
Marquis Don
if you want to learn, then teach
Cicero Marcus Tullius
if you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans
Pascal Blaise
if you wish to avoid looking at an idiot, break your mirror first
Rabelais François
if you wish to make someone happy, rather than give him gifts you should deprive him of desires
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
if you wish to savour your good qualities, commit a sin from time to time
Ojetti Ugo
if you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you
Wilder Billy
if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
Tillman Henry J.
if your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
Stevenson Robert Louis
ignorance is closer to the truth than a priori knowledge
Diderot Denis
ignorance is spreading in a terrifying way
Saramago José
ignorance is the greatest source of happiness
Leopardi Giacomo
ignorance is the mother of sexual happiness and bliss
Bruno Giordano
ignorance of your own ignorance, is ignorance at its worst
San Girolamo
imagination consoles us for what we are not, humour for what we are
Churchill Winston
imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory
Bonnard Pierre
immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal
Eliot Thomas Stearns
immunity is to impunity as honourable is to man of honour
Casanova Giacomo
in Italy the majority of politicians don't fight for projects, but to defend their own interests
Montanelli Indro
in all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll Rober Green
in all things we learn only from those we love
Eckermann Johann Peter
in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness
Bellow Saul
in archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known
Pickering Thomas
in cases of doubt, one decides for what is right
Kraus Karl
in certain situations unkind words are best
Anónimo
in fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
in general, every country has the language it deserves
Borges Jorge Luis
in general, men believe easily in that which they desire
Caesar Caius Iulius
in great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are
Chamfort Nicolas de
in jest one can say anything, even the truth (Sigmund Freud)
Freud Sigmund
in many cases servitude is not an instance of duress on the part of the master, but a temptation for the servile
Montanelli Indro
in matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing
Wilde Oscar
in my love stories remorse used to come afterwards, now it goes before me
Flaiano Ennio
in my times there were no best-sellers, and we could not prostitute ourselves. There was nobody wanting to buy our prostitution
Borges Jorge Luis
in no other language is it as difficult to reach agreement as in one's own
Kraus Karl
in order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep
Einstein Albert
in order to live many years the only thing to be avoided is life
Anónimo
in prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends
Collins John Churton
in seeking the good of others, we find our own
Plato
in seeking wisdom, the first step is silence; the second, listening; the third, remembering; the fourth, practicing; the fifth, teaching others
Ibn Gabirol Solomon
in the United States, more prisons are built each year than schools and colleges
Sepúlveda Jesús
in the concentration camps we used to live from minute to minute and we had to keep reflection to a minimum, for thinking is wearing
Sephiha Haïm-Vidal
in the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word
Whitman Walt
in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King
King Martin Luther
in the fight between you and the world, back the world - Frank Zappa
Zappa Frank
in the future world there will be I don't know how many dialects, but only four languages: Spanish, English, Arabic and Chinese
Cela Camilo José
in the past, to subjugate the people, the powerful used force, laws and religion; now, they also have football and television
Brown Carl William
in this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich
Beecher Henry Ward
in this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it
Wilde Oscar
in times of war, the law falls silent
Cicero Marcus Tullius
in war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies
Churchill Winston
incompetence will show in the use of too many words - Ezra Pound
Pound Ezra
increase in wisdom can be measured accurately by the corresponding decrease in anger
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
indigenous peoples are the moral reserve of humanity
Morales Evo
infidel: in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does
Bierce Ambrose
inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - George Carlin
George Carlin
interpreter: one who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said
Bierce Ambrose
is it democratic to make people pay taxes in a country where 90 per cent of the population doesn't want to pay them?
Anónimo
is it the girls on the street that imitate the girls on the television or the other way round? Or is it simply that they go to the same consultants?
Anónimo
is there any sense in talking about 'compulsory schooling'?
Anónimo
is there any use in living if you don't have the courage to fight?
Fava Giuseppe
is there anything in what we say?
Steiner George
is there anything more precious to a people than the language of its forefathers?
Herder Johann Gottfried von
isn't it ironic that a place known as the Holy Land is the place of the fiercest and deepest hatred that exists on this planet?
Luttazzi Daniele
it can sound ridiculous, but let me say it: the true revolutionary is guided by deep feelings of love
Guevara Ernesto Che
it doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else - Samuel Rogers
Rogers Samuel
it is a crime against humanity to convert agricultural productive soil into soil which produces food stuff that will be turned into biofuel
Ziegler Jean
it is a heretic which builds a fire, not she who burns in't
Shakespeare William
it is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
Einstein Albert
it is a mistake to suppose that no man understands his own character. Most persons know even their failings very well, only they persist in giving them names different from those usually assigned by the rest of the world - Arthur Helps
Helps Arthur
it is as difficult for the rich to acquire wisdom as is it for the wise to acquire riches
Epitteto
it is because humanity didn't know where it was going that it managed to find its path
Wilde Oscar
it is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember
McCarthy Eugene Joseph
it is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong
Voltaire
it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it - Upton Sinclair
Sinclair Upton
it is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best
Lord Lytton
it is difficult to see who willingly goes along with the tide
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
it is difficult, in art, to say something that is as good as saying nothing
Wittgenstein Ludwig
it is easier to fight for your beliefs than live up to them
Adler Alfred
it is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend
Blake William
it is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor
Hoffer Eric
it is easier to teach everyone a second language than to build a machine capable of translating
Anónimo
it is easy to write one's memoirs, when one has a bad memory
Schnitzler Arthur
it is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself
Jefferson Thomas
it is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward
Gide André
it is hard to be sincere if you are intelligent, in the same way as being honest when you are ambitious
Pessoa Fernando
it is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place
Mencken H.L.
it is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself
Emerson Ralph Waldo
it is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do
Jerome K. Jerome
it is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians
Ibsen Henrik
it is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
Rochefoucauld François de La
it is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow
Rochefoucauld François de La
it is my opinion, and I share it
Monnier Henri-Bonaventure
it is not a good thing to get all you want
Heraclitus
it is not freedom that is wanting, but free men
Longanesi Leo
it is not life that is prolonged, it is old age
Anónimo
it is not uncommon to meet thieves who sermonize against theft
Unamuno Miguel de
it is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live
Hugo Victor
it is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying
Gide André
it is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true
Wilde Oscar
it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way
Aristotle
it is rare that men who nurture the utmost respect for women are held in high regard by them
Addison Joseph
it is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck - Joseph Conrad
Conrad Joseph
it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work - David Hockney
Hockney David
it often happens that the firebug is not brought to book but the person who gave the alarm is castigated
Chamfort Nicolas de
it seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more
Allen Woody
it takes a very long time to become young
Picasso Pablo
it takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you
Twain Mark
it took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous
Benchley Robert
it was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson Ralph Waldo
it was his fate, as it is for all men, to live through hard times
Borges Jorge Luis
it's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own - Harry S. Truman
Truman Harry S.
it's amazing that one fortune-teller doesn't laugh at the sight of another
Cicero Marcus Tullius
it's amusing the thoughtlessness with which the wicked think that all will go well
Hugo Victor
it's better not to have laws than to break them every day
Foscolo Ugo
it's better to fret in doubt than to rest in error
Manzoni Alessandro
it's difficult not to have a desire for someone else's woman; those belonging to nobody are, after all, not very attractive
Biagi Enzo
it's easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice
Einstein Albert
it's good to slowly come to the realisation that you understand nothing
Maeterlinck Maurice
it's never his virtues, but always his vices, that tell us on each occasion who the man is
Galimberti Umberto
it's not the struggle that makes us be artists, but Art that makes us struggle
Camus Albert
it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well
Bukowski Charles
it's this love I have for books that's made me the smartest idiot in the world
Brooks Louise
it's very difficult working in an exemplary way and, at the same time, despising the job you are doing
Kundera Milan
it's when we forget ourselves that we do things which deserve to be remembered
Anonymous
jealousy is a barking of dogs that attracts thieves
Kraus Karl
journalism is only the art of filling a blank space - Rebecca West
West Rebecca
journalism is publishing what someone doesn't want us to know; the rest is propaganda
Verbitsky Horacio
journalism is to history as a prostitute is to an honest woman
Huot Goncourt Jules de
journalists don't believe the lies of politicians, but they do repeat them - which is even worse!
Coluche
just as we are corrupted by the flattery of friends, we are often corrected by the rebukes of enemies
Sant'Agostino
just one ray of sunshine is enough to dispel millions of shadows
San Francesco d'Assisi
justice is how established injustices are sanctioned
France Anatole
justice is simply the convenience of the stronger
Plato
keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards
Franklin Benjamin
kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see
Twain Mark
knowing useless things is better than nothing
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
knowledge continues to make progress because we are able to base ourselves on the work of the great minds that have preceded us
Hack Margherita
language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it
Wittgenstein Ludwig
language is a sign, the most important sign of our human makeup
Paz Octavio
language is a skin: I rub my language against the other
Barthes Roland
language is an aggregate of which each speaker possesses a portion
Dupriez Bernard
language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations
Sapir Edward
language is much more restless than life
Seco Manuel
language is the mere reduction of thought to its simplest form
Anonymous
language is the skin of the soul
Carreter Fernando Lázaro
language may well be a distorting mirror, but it is the only mirror we have
Dummet Michael
languages, like religions, live on heresies
Unamuno Miguel de
laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends
Giolitti Giovanni
laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught
Balzac Honoré de
lawyer - one who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation
Mencken H.L.
lawyer: an accomplice who does not run any risk
Anónimo
lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen amongst themselves
Colton Charles Caleb
lawyers are the only persons in whom the ignorance of the law is not punished
Bentham Jeremy
learning to talk is learning to translate
Paz Octavio
let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us forty years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil - Golda Meir
Meir Golda
let others brag about the pages they have written; I'm proud of those I've read
Borges Jorge Luis
let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences
Valéry Paul
let whoever can't do what he wants want what he can do
Ortega y Gasset José
let yourself be guided by the child you were
Saramago José
let's also say that liberty is something rather vague, but there's no vagueness about its absence
Rey Rosa Rodrigo
let's hope that the normal athletes who won medals at the paralympics did not use drugs
Anónimo
let's unite and we'll be invincible
Bolivar Simon
liberty is precious, so precious that it must be rationed
Lenin Wladimir Iljitsch
liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it
Shaw George Bernard
life being what it is, one dreams of revenge
Gauguin Paul
life can be wonderful if it doesn't frighten you - Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin Charlie
life has great value if one despises it
Kleist Heinrich von
life has stopped being a joke for me, I do not find it amusing
Chaplin Charlie
life is a hereditary disease
Anónimo
life is a school of probability
Bagehot Walter
life is an interrupted sentence
Hugo Victor
life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it
Lehrer Tom
life is like a tram, when you get to sit down it's the end of the line
Sbarbaro Camillo
life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on
Butler Samuel
life is long, if it is full
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it
García Márquez Gabriel
life is not worth living if you have not had a real taste for what it has to offer
Wathelet Emmanuel
life is the touchstone of words
Manzoni Alessandro
life is to be understood backwards, but it is lived forwards
Kierkegaard Soren
life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
Lennon John
life takes up too much of a person's time
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
life's best is not to be sought, but found
Anonymous
lighting a match is often worth more than cursing the darkness
Don Tonino Bello
literature is often accused of making it easy for prisoners to flee from reality
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
live more simply so that others may simply live
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it
Renard Jules
looking ahead is difficult, especially when the future is concerned
Chinese saying
love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret
Behn Aphra
love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs
Shakespeare William
love is eternal while it lasts
Henri de Régnier
love is infinity that even poodle dogs could understand
Céline Louis-Ferdinand
love is never wasted
Cervantes Miguel de
love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species - William Somerset Maugham
Maugham Wìlliam Somerset
love is so short and oblivion so long
Neruda Pablo
love is what happens to a man and a woman who don't know each other - Wìlliam Somerset Maugham
Maugham Wìlliam Somerset
love makes us crazy, marriage cuckolds and patriotism cruel imbeciles
Léautaud Paul
love of country knows nothing about the borders of others
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
love? Perhaps after a while when we know less about each other
Flaiano Ennio
lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable
Evans Bergen
Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have (Marlon Brando)
Brando Marlon
Meskimen law: there's never enough time to do a good translation, but there's alway enough time to redo it
Meskimen
madness is a human condition. Madness is inside us as much as reason. The point is that a so called civil society should accept madness as much as reason
Basaglia Franco
madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity
Mingus Charles
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them
Stevenson Adlai
man is a domesticated animal that, over the centuries, has controlled the other animals with fraud, violence and cruelty
Chaplin Charlie
man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason
Wilde Oscar
man is a social animal that detests his equals
Delacroix Eugène
man is an animal with a formidable talent for adaptation
Ferrari Enzo
man is an apprentice, pain is his master
Musset Alfred de
man is made up of about 80% water so it is no wonder that he is polluted
Brown Carl William
man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him
Eldridge Paul
man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to
Twain Mark
man knows no more than any other animal - he knows less! Other animals know what they need to know - we don't
Pessoa Fernando
man looks in too many places for what he is in search of, whereas only one would suffice
Saint-Exupéry Antoine de
man produces evil as a bee produces honey
Golding William
man reaches the threshold of each stage of life as a novice
Chamfort Nicolas de
man ruins things much more with his words than with his silence
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
man would not know anything and would not know how to do anything without his memory
Leopardi Giacomo
man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty
Zola Emile
man's most difficult to guard secret is his opinion of himself
Pagnol Marcel
man's worst crime was to be born
Calderón de la Barca Pedro
mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - John F. Kennedy
Kennedy John F.
many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: 'It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so'
Franklin Benjamin
many people live happily without knowing it
Vauvenargues Luc de Clapiers Marquis de
many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness - Pearl S. Buck
Buck Pearls S.
many would be cowards if they had courage enough - Thomas Fuller
Fuller Thomas
many would love to avoid paying tax but only the rich manage to do so. The poor realise, therefore, that they have to pay taxes even for them
Brown Carl William
marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad - Woody Allen
Woody Allen
marriage is the chief cause of divorce
Marx Groucho
marriage is two people agreeing to tell the same lie
Durbin Karen
marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle
About Edmond
marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two
Bierce Ambrose
marriage: a necessary formality before obtaining a divorce
Herford Oliver & Clay John C.
maybe Ethics is a science that has disappeared from the whole world. It does not matter, we will have to invent it again
Borges Jorge Luis
maybe this world is another planet's hell
Huxley Aldous
melancholy is the happiness of being sad
Hugo Victor
memories are interpreted like dreams
Longanesi Leo
memory is always a rendezvous
Allende Isabel
men are always sincere. They just change from one kind of sincerity to another, that's all
Bernard Tristan
men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education
Russell Bertrand
men are not ashamed to think something dirty, but they are ashamed when they imagine that others might believe them capable of these dirty thoughts
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds
Roosevelt Franklin Delano
men build too many walls and not enough bridges
Newton Isaac
men change feelings and demeanour with the same speed that they change their interests
Schopenhauer Arthur
men have become the tools of their tools
Thoreau Henry David
men have little respect for others, but neither do they have much for themselves
Trotsky Leon
men have slow reflexes - in general it takes several generations later for them to understand
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
men of few words are the best men
Shakespeare William
men shout to avoid listening to one another
Unamuno Miguel de
men use... speech only to conceal their thoughts
Voltaire
men who best get along with women are the very ones who know how to do without them
Baudelaire Charles
merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Anonymous
military intelligence is a contradiction in terms
Marx Groucho
mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good
Talleyrand-Périgord Charles Maurice De
misunderstanding is the most frequent form of communication between people
Benary Peter
money helps one tolerate poverty
Allais Alphonse
money is a good servant but a bad master
Dumas Alexander
money is becoming so important that soon we will be speaking of Kennedy as the first husband of Onassis's wife
Anónimo
more die in flight than in combat
Lagerlöf Selma
more than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly
Allen Woody
most men will not swim before they are able to
Hesse Hermann
most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so
Russell Bertrand
mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps and watches the television
Greer Germaine
my cat does what I would like to do, with less literature
Flaiano Ennio
my concern is not to know whether I am great or not, rather whether I am developing as a person with every day that passes
Chillida Eduardo
my dream is that of Picasso: to have plenty of money so I can live peacefully like the poor
Savater Fernando
my future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life
Davis Miles
my maxim is that all men are crazy
Horatius Quintus Flaccus
my religion is to seek out truth in life and life in truth
Unamuno Miguel de
nature is commanded by obeying her
Bacon Francis
nature never does anything without a reason
Aristotle
nearly all men die of their cure, not of their diseases
Molière
necessity has no law
Cromwell Oliver
never before has there been such a wide difference between those who work and those who make money without working
Shiva Vandana
never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury
Chapin E.H.
never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife. She has thought much worse things about you
Rostand Jean
never follow the beaten track, it leads only where others have been before
Bell Alexander Graham
never judge a book by its movie
Eagan J.W.
never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level
Crisp Quentin
never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday language equivalent
Orwell George
ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name
Kissinger Henry Alfred
ninety-nine parts out of a hundred in any 'creation' are imitation, in sounds or in thoughts. Theft, more or less deliberate
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
no day is too long for anyone who works
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
no good can give us pleasure if we do not share it with others
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
no government can be long secure without a formidable opposition - Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli Benjamin
no man fully capable of his own language ever masters another
Shaw George Bernard
no man, for any considerable time, can show one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally becoming bewildered as to which may be the true one
Hawthorne Nathaniel
no need to run, rather to set off in good time
Esopo
no one can win without the other losing
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
no one gossips about other people's secret virtues
Russell Bertrand
no one has the right to be happy by themselves
Follereau Raoul
no people do so much harm as those who go about doing good
Creighton Mandell
no person deserves your tears and who deserves them won't make you cry
García Márquez Gabriel
no philosopher has changed the customs of the street where he lives
Voltaire
no snowflake ever falls in the wrong place
Zen saying
no two persons ever read the same book
Wilson Edmund
no unpoetic description of reality could ever be complete
Barrow John David
no woman can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner
Dewar Thomas
no-one is ever short of a good reason for killing himself
Pavese Cesare
nobody consults a dictionary before speaking
Anónimo
non-communication is not a state of death, but no longer being able to be understood certainly is
Pasolini Pier Paolo
nostalgia is not what it used to be
Signoret Simone
not even one's own thoughts are able to be successfully translated into words
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
not everyone can boast of having a friend
Saint-Exupéry Antoine de
not everyone is condemned to being intelligent
Gadda Carlo Emilio
not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it
Friedenberg Edgar Z.
not wanting is the same as having
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side
Halifax George Saville Marquess of
nothing impoverishes so much as greed
Anónimo
nothing in the world is more difficult than frankness and nothing is easier than flattery
Dostoevskij Fedor Michailovich
nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone
Borges Jorge Luis
nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery
Lobel Arnold
nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it
Young Andrew
nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself
Weiler A.H.
nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses
San Tommaso D'Aquino
nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has
Descartes René
nothing is permanent, except change
Heraclitus
nothing is poison and everything is poison; the difference is in the dose
Paracelsus
nothing is said that has not been said before
Terentius
nothing is so practical as a good theory
Lewin Kurt
nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all
Balfour Arthur James
nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits
Twain Mark
novelty is as old as the world
Prévert Jacques
now I do not dispute that medicine benefits some kinds of men, but I say that it is deadly for mankind
Rousseau Jean-Jacques
now I see the secret of making the best persons: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth
Whitman Walt
obscenity is not pornography, obscenity is that someone could die of hunger
Saramago José
of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity
Gourmont Remy de
of all things that are certain, the most certain is doubt
Brecht Bertolt
of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife
Anonymous
of course the people don't want war. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country
Göring Hermann
often we do good so that we can then do evil with impunity
Rochefoucauld François de La
oh! don't use big words. They mean so little
Wilde Oscar
on today's world stage we westerners are, unfortunately, the only actors and the only spectators, and so, through our television and our press, we listen only to our reasons and feel only our sorrows
Terzani Tiziano
once I read a dictionary from cover to cover; I thought it was a lovely poem about everything
Ophelia
one achieves self-control only by dint of lack of restraint. The brothel defends the house
Dossi Carlo
one can really forgive a man for being a fool for an hour when there are so many who never stop being fools even for an hour in their entire life
Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de
one day we will be people again, and not only Jews
Frank Anne
one does not conduct politics with morality, but neither can one conduct them without
Malraux André
one does not fear vice in men, because it enslaves them; virtue yes, because it makes them masters
Saavedra Fajardo Diego
one does not sell the earth upon which the people walk
Tashunka Witko
one is able to adopt the strategy of a lover only when not in love
Pavese Cesare
one is easily fooled by that which one loves
Molière
one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman
Beauvoir Simone de
one is not deceived by one's senses, but by one's judgement
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
one is not what one is for that which one writes, but for that which one has read
Borges Jorge Luis
one is worth as many people as the languages one knows
Carlo V
one may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
one must be very strong to love solitude
Pasolini Pier Paolo
one never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
one never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done
Curie Marie
one of the advantages of not being happy is that one can long for happiness
Unamuno Miguel de
one of the advantages of pleasure over pain is that for pleasure you can say 'stop'
Ojetti Ugo
one of the benefits of group sex is that, if someone wants, they can take a nap
Woody Allen
one of the greatest pleasures in life is friendship, and one of the pleasures of friendship is to have someone in whom to confide a secret
Manzoni Alessandro
one of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter - James Earl Jones
Earl Jones James
one of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer
Byron Lord
one person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests
Mill John Stuart
one should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry
Wilde Oscar
one should always play fairly when one has the winning cards
Wilde Oscar
one shows respect for books by using them
Eco Umberto
one weeps more for prayers answered than for those unanswered
Santa Teresa de Jesús
only a fool would choose war over peace - for in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers their sons (Herodotus)
Herodotus
only at the extremes of the social scale are kings recognised
Pasolini Pier Paolo
only cultured people like learning; ignoramuses prefer to teach
Berquier Edouard Le
only great men have great faults
Rochefoucauld François Duc de La
only he who is without expectation is truly free
Young Edward
only idiots have no doubts. Are you sure? I have no doubt!
De Crescenzo Luciano
only one who is very unhappy has the right to pity another
Wittgenstein Ludwig
only silence is great; all else is weakness
Vigny Alfred de
only someone who has no fear of dying for the truth is worthy of speaking it
Vargas Vila José María
only that which I have lost belongs to me for always
Félix Elisa
only that which is not paid for proves costly
Sbarbaro Camillo
only the brave know how to forgive. A coward never - it is not in his nature
Sterne Laurence
only the dead have the right to forgive and the living have no right to forget
Herzog Chaim
only the dead see the end of war
Plato
only the human rights of the legal persons are respected
Anónimo
only the vigilance of public opinion ensures the future of any society
Chomsky Noam
only the winners decide what were war crimes
Wills Gary
only those who want to pay taxes should live in tax havens: so small are they all
Anónimo
only through usage shall words be made good, true and legitimate words of a language
Manzoni Alessandro
only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars - Martin Luther King
King Martin Luther
opulence is the ruin of the rich and augments the misery of the poor
Diderot Denis
organized crime is just the other (dirty) face of the dollar
Chandler Raymond
originality is undetected plagiarism
Inge William R.
our conscience is no defence against our sins, however, it unfortunately denies us the pleasure of enjoying them
Madariaga Salvador de
our current economy system is a global machine that is destroying the environment and producing millions of losers that nobody knows what to do with
George Susan
our greatest and most glorious achievement is to live as we should. Everything else such as ruling, ammassing wealth and constructing are at most only adjuncts and props
Montaigne Michel de
our intellect not only makes us more rational, unfortunately it also makes us more dangerous
Wiesenthal Simon
our lives end the day we become silent about things that really matter
King Martin Luther
our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control
Connolly Cyril
our morals rectify our instinctive errors, and love our moral errors
Ortega y Gasset José
ownership is a trap: what we think we own in fact owns us
Karr Alphonse
'peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants - Bill Mauldin
Mauldin Bill
Pasolini was killed in 1975 and it is surprising to see how the silencing of just one voice could cost an entire nation so dear
Aramcheck
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I
Dalí Salvador
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians
Montand Yves
pain that kills pain serves as medicine
Publilius Syrus
passions are defects or virtues, only if carried to the extreme
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
paying taxes is synonymous with being on the Left
Anónimo
peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other
Wiesel Elie
peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice
Spinoza Baruch De
peace within oneself is necessary to counteract the terror messages with which the powers-that-be try to aggravate everyone's lives
Paoli Arturo
people are divided into two groups - the righteous and the unrighteous - and the righteous do the dividing
Wilde Oscar
people are more willing to sympathize with unhappiness than happiness
Beauvoir Simone de
people are only ridiculous when they want to be or to appear to be what they are not
Leopardi Giacomo
people are subjected so often to opinion polls that now they have no opinion at all
Baudrillard Jean
people become heroes only when they cannot be otherwise
Claudel Paul
people do not die for lack of incomes. They die for lack of access to resources
Shiva Vandana
people don't have great ideas, great ideas find people
Modigliani Franco
people never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt
Bismarck Otto von
people of a sanguinary nature display a natural propensity to cruelty with regard to animals
Montaigne Michel de
people should know the risks they run trying to commit suicide
Carman Ron C.
people travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves without astonishment
Sant'Agostino
people who boasted that they had made a revolution have always seen the next day that they had no idea what they were doing, that the revolution made did not in the least resemble the one they would have liked to make
Engels Friedrich
people who never laugh, are not serious
Dac Pierre
people who talk a lot don't say anything
Sagan Françoise
people will swim through shit if you put a few shillings in it
Sellers Peter
people won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to
Vachss Andrew H.
people, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction
Chase Alexander
perhaps the aim nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refute what we are
Foucault Michel
personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught
Churchill Winston
pessimism has to do with intelligence; optimism with will
Gramsci Antonio
philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, but now it is a matter of changing it
Marx Karl
physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it
Feynman Richard P.
please forgive me if I call you gentlemen, but I don't know you very well
Marx Groucho
plundering, slaughtering, stealing, these things they misname empire; and where they create a wilderness, they call it peace
Tacitus
poetry adds life to life
Luzi Mario
poetry is the art of putting the ocean into a glass
Calvino Italo
poets are people who can still see the world throught the eyes of children
Daudet Alphonse
poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax
Schopenhauer Arthur
political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - Tom Lehrer
Lehrer Tom
politicians are just the bankers' waiters - Ezra Pound
Pound Ezra
politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong
Dwight Walter
politics - the art of dealing with public life - is the work of politicians who are artists in private affairs
Brown Carl William
politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics
Camus Albert
politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does
Marx Groucho
politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable - John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith John Kenneth
politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies
Marx Groucho
politics is the art of seeing that people do not become interested in that which concerns them
Valéry Paul
politics is the entertainment department of industry
Zappa Frank
politics is the shadow cast on society by big business - John Dewey
Dewey John
politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed
Mao Zedong
politics: a balancing act between people who want to become involved and those who don't want to become uninvolved
Bossuet Jacques-Benigne
politics: a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles
Bierce Ambrose
poor are not those who have too little, but those who want too much
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
poverty of language debilitates: it risks making us slaves to other people's ideas
Barberi Squarotti Giorgio
practical politics consists in ignoring facts
Adams Henry Brooks
premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along
Monnet Jean
pretending to be a fool, Pinochet has shown great intelligence... military
Anónimo
probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release
Greer Germaine
progress in this world is made by achieving things deemed impossible
Maurois André
propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies
Cornford Frances
proving that I am right would be admitting that I could be wrong
Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais
prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity
Blake William
punishments serve to frighten those who do not want to commit sins
Kraus Karl
pupils eat that which the teachers have digested
Kraus Karl
questions that don't answer themselves when they arise will never be answered
Kafka Franz
rather add life to your days than days to your life
Levi Montalcini Rita
rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth
Thoreau Henry David
readers are imaginary people who exist in the fantasies of writers
Campanile Achille
reading is a form of happiness
Savater Fernando
reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
Addison Joseph
real pleasure is contempt for pleasure
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away
Dick Philip K.
reflect, before thinking
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
regarding numbers of deaths, arms manufacturers are charitable institutions compared to cigarette manufacturers
Garattini Silvio
religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think
Schopenhauer Arthur
remembrance is one thing, remembering is another
Machado Antonio
research into illness has progressed so much that it is almost impossible to find someone who is completely healthy
Huxley Aldous
riches don't make you rich, but busy
Rojas Fernando de
Spanish will not be a real language of culture until science is written in Spanish
Municio Angel Martín
satire that a censor can understand deserves to be suppressed
Kraus Karl
saying friendship is as if to say perfect understanding, immediate trust and lengthy reminiscing, that is to say trustworthiness
Mistral Gabriela
scandal starts when the police put a stop to it
Kraus Karl
science ain't perfect, but that doesn't mean you need religion
Anonymous
science doesn't interest me. It doesn't take into account dreams, chance, laughter, emotion and contradiction, things that are precious to me
Buñuel Luis
science is anything that is always open to discussion
Ortega y Gasset José
science only serves to verify the discoveries of instinct
Cocteau Jean
see all, conceal much, modify little
Gregorio Magno
seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal
Hesse Hermann
selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live
Wilde Oscar
serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting
Orwell George
setting up libraries is like building public granaries, storing up reserves for a hibernation of the mind which, despite myself, I see many signs of its approach
Yourcenar Marguerite
sex alleviates tension. Love causes it
Allen Woody
shaped teeth
 
she fell in love the same way all intelligent women fall in love: like a fool
Mastretta Angeles
silence is unbearable for some because they have too much noise inside them - Robert Fripp
Fripp Robert
silence, bloody hell! - all those who want to revive themselves raise your hand and all those who want to rejuvenate themselves take a step forward
Parra Nicanor
simplicity is the form of real greatness
De Sanctis Francesco
since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word
De Gaulle Charles
since it's publicly known that cigarettes are dangerous, why are they sold?
Tavano Francesco
since their birth the great banks, decorated with national titles, were only associations of private speculators, who placed themselves by the side of governments...
Marx Karl
since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed (Constitution of UNESCO)
UNESCO
smile, your teeth are not only made for eating or biting - Man Ray
Ray Man
smoking kills
 
so beautiful was she that they had forbidden her to approach the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Anónimo
so long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable - Aldous Huxley
Huxley Aldous
so much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work - Peter Drucker
Drucker Peter
soccer is beginning to be a lie as is well documented by the media
Valdano Jorge
soccer needs to free itself from chemists and accountants
Zeman Zdenek
socialism can only arrive by bicycle
José Antonio Viera Gallo
society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks (Lin Yutang)
Yutang Lin
society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years - R.D. Laing
Laing R.D.
society is permissive with things that cost absolutely nothing
Biagi Enzo
solidarity is not a question of giving, rather is it opposing injustice
Pierre Abbé
solitude is a beautiful thing; but it really needs someone to tell you that solitude is a beautiful thing
Balzac Honoré de
solitude is to the soul as food is to the body
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
solving our problems involves radically changing the relationship we have with ourselves and with all of our past
Jodorowsky Alejandro
some intellectuals work at filling our brains, whereas others do their best to empty them. Naturally the latter are in the majority
Brown Carl William
some of the greatest love affairs I've known involved one actor, unassisted (Wilson Mizner)
Mizner Wilson
some people would pay to sell themselves
Hugo Victor
some poor countries are proud and would rather solve their problems by themselves but, fortunately, the multinationals can't resist sacrificing themselves to help
Anónimo
some regard themselves as perfect only because they are less demanding of themselves
Hesse Hermann
some smiles are not happy smiles, rather are they a way of crying with kindness
Mistral Gabriela
some things are easier to legalize than legitimize
Chamfort Nicolas de
someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie
Wittgenstein Ludwig
sometimes in life you have to know how to fight, not only fearlessly but also without much hope
Pertini Sandro
sometimes it can be better to continue on one's way without arriving. After all arriving is a nonentity, only a point in time
Vermicelli Gino
sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light (Albert Schweitzer)
Schweitzer Albert
sometimes, in order to be listened to, one must remain silent
Anónimo
sooner rather than later the grand avenues will open and free people will pass to build a better society
Allende Salvador
speaking different languages, we understand each other better
Loewenthal Elena
specialisation in the extreme translates as the highest degree of lack of culture
Ortega y Gasset José
specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes - Walter Gropius
Gropius Walter
spontaneity is the fruit of long meditation
Neruda Pablo
stories are our dreams. And our dreams are our life (Tim Burton)
Burton Tim
strife among the poor means good business for the rich
Pérsico Eduardo
success is easy to obtain, what is difficult is to deserve it
Camus Albert
success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get (H. Jackson Brown)
Brown Jackson H.
sustainable development is like the road to hell, paved with good intentions
Latouche Serge
...the only true book, a writer does not have to invent it in the ordinary sense of the word, for it already exists in each one of us; he must only translate it. The duty and task of a writer are those of a translator
Proust Marcel
teaching a man how to die is tantamount to teaching him how to live
Montaigne Michel de
tears represent the melting of an icy heart
Hesse Hermann
television has done much for psychiatry, by spreading information about it as well as contributing to the need for it - Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock Alfred
television is a mirror in which the negation of the whole of our cultural system is reflected
Fellini Federico
television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house - David Frost
Frost David
television is as strong as a lion, television fears nobody and television puts you to sleep like an idiot
Jannacci Enzo
television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms - Alan Coren
Coren Alan
television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want (Clive Barnes)
Barnes Clive
television is the only sleeping pill taken through the eyes
De Sica Vittorio
tell the truth every now and then so that they believe you when you lie
Renard Jules
temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you a second chance - Orlando Aloysius Battista
Battista Orlando Aloysius
thank God, I am a communist
Amado Jorge
that man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest - Henri David Thoreau
Thoreau Henry David
that men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history - Aldous Huxley
Huxley Aldous
that new inspiration - without which to translate merely means to paraphrase into another language
Pessoa Fernando
that some bankers have ended up in prison is not a matter of scandal, but what is outrageous is the fact that all the others are free
Balzac Honoré de
that the vulgar express their thoughts clearly, is far from true; and what perspicuity can be found among them proceeds not from the easiness of their language, but the shallowness of their thoughts - Samuel Johnson
Johnson Samuel
that which is difficult to obtain is highly valued (Aristotle)
Aristotle
that which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee
Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus
that which makes men sociable is their inability to bear solitude
Schopenhauer Arthur
that which makes the vanity of others insupportable to us, is that it wounds our own
Rochefoucauld François de La
the Bible teaches us to love our enemies as much as our friends. Probably, because they are the same persons
De Sica Vittorio
the British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world in search of a decent meal (Bill Marsano)
Marsano Bill
the Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
the Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church
Magellano Ferdinando
the Earth belongs to its owners, but the landscape belongs to those who know how to appreciate it (Upton Sinclair)
Sinclair Upton
the English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it - James Agate
Agate James
the First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it - Alexander Cockburn
Cockburn Alexander
the Internet is also an authentic murderer of language variety
Wunderlich Dieter
the New Economy is that wonderful concept whereby wealth can be created losing money
Anónimo
the Swiss are fanatics for cleaning, they even launder money
Vergara Meersohn Marcos
the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of democracy
Bolivar Simon
the Vatican is the most reactionary force in Italy. According to the church, governments that encroach on its privileges are despotic and those, like fascism, that add to them are heaven-sent
Gramsci Antonio
the advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery - Samuel Johnson
Johnson Samuel
the animal of friendship is a companion, not one of a herd
Plutarch
the art of winning is learned from defeats
Bolivar Simon
the baddies exist because there are goodies - eliminate the goodies and the baddies will gradually disappear too
Brown Carl William
the banking system creates money from nothing just like counterfeiters, the only difference is who profits
Allais Maurice
the basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I
Liebknecht Karl
the beauty of war is that each leader of a band of assassins has his flag blessed and invokes God before setting off to exterminate his neighbors
Voltaire
the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter (Winston Churchill)
Churchill Winston
the best gift of Nature to man is the briefness of his life
Plinius Secundus
the best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary - Franklin P. Adams
Adams Franklin Pierce
the best thing about forgetfulness is remembering
Hierro José
the best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time - Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Abraham
the best way of duping yourself is to believe that you are more cunning than others
Rochefoucauld François Duc de La
the best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others
Dossi Carlo
the best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility (Kenneth Blanchard)
Blanchard Kenneth
the best way to learn how to make a film is to make one - Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick Stanley
the big difference between sex for money and sex for free is sex for money costs less (Brendan Francis)
Behan Brendan Francis
the biggest obstacle for the comprehension of a piece of art is the attempt to understand it
Munari Bruno
the bourgeoisie can be termed as any group of people who are discontented with what they have, but satisfied with what they are
Dávila Nicolás
the broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one
Hitler Adolf
the camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth - Harold Evans
Evans Harold
the chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three
Dumas Alexander
the chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
Adler Alfred
the chief source of problems is solutions (Eric Sevareid)
Sevareid Eric
the cinema, like paintings, shows the invisible
Godard Jean-Luc
the circumstances make the man no less than the man makes the circumstances
Marx Karl
the cock even crows in the morning on which it ends up in the pot
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
the course of our lives represents the true mirror of our reasoning
Montaigne Michel de
the credulity of love is the most fundamental source of authority
Freud Sigmund
the cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man
Bossuet Jacques-Benigne
the cult of perfection always leads to preferring myth to authenticity
Ariès Paul
the death of someone who's dreaming of us is the death of a part of us
Unamuno Miguel de
the deepest thing in man is his skin
Valéry Paul
the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
Dostoevski Fedor Michailovich
the denial of cultural rights to minorities is as disruptive of the moral fabric of mainstream society as is the denial of civil rights (Joshua A. Fishman)
Fishman Joshua A.
the destiny of a people depends on the state of its grammar. There is no great country without propriety of language
Pessoa Fernando
the devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner
Kraus Karl
the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting - Charles Bukowski
Bukowski Charles
the distance between one molecule and another is the distance between the stars
Dossi Carlo
the distrust of words is much less damaging than an excessive confidence in them (Vaclav Havel)
Havel Vaclav
the divine light blinds the world instead of illuminating it
Emin Patrick
the dominant ideology has always been the ideology of the dominant class
Marx Karl
the dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage so we get married - Cyril Connolly
Connolly Cyril
the dream of everyone without a brother is that all men be brothers
Chincholles Charles
the duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman
Balzac Honoré de
the earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of these diseases is called 'man'
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
the easiest person to deceive is one's self (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Bulwer-Lytton Edward
the end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end
Trotsky Leon
the end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it (William Faulkner)
Faulkner William
the end sprouts from the means, as the tree germinates from the seed (Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
the era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
the essence of mathematics resides in its freedom
Cantor Georg
the evil we do does not attract as much hate and hostility as do our good deeds
Rochefoucauld François de La
the fact that there are different tongues is one of the greatest mysteries of humanity
Canetti Elias
the failings of others are too much like our own
Longanesi Leo
the final illusion is the belief that one has lost all illusions
Chapelan Maurice
the first and most important step towards knowledge is mutual love between learner and teacher
Erasmus von Rotterdam Desiderius
the first casualty when war comes is truth (Hiram Warren Johnson)
Johnson Hiram Warren
the first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children - Clarence Darrow
Darrow Clarence
the first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill - Robert Heller
Heller Robert
the first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve - Dean Acheson
Acheson Dean
the first symptom of death is birth
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
the first thing a woman should do when she wants a man is to start to run
Molière
the force of habit is great
Cicero Marcus Tullius
the force of habit is such that even living becomes a habit
Bufalino Gesualdo
the foreigner is within us. And when we flee from or struggle against the foreigner, we are fighting our own unconscious
Kristeva Julia
the freedom to love is no less sacred than the freedom to think. That which today is called adultery was once called heresy
Hugo Victor
the function of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons - David Butler
Butler David
the function of punishment is to improve the punisher
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
the future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious - Ted Levitt
Levitt Ted
the future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves
Camus Albert
the future of children is always of today. Tomorrow will be too late
Mistral Gabriela
the future will win, there will be no property in cyberspace. Behold DotCommunism (John Perry Barlow)
Barlow John Perry
the general public has a duty to resist relentlessly, as if it was in an irremissible line of troops on the Piave, against the damage from a perilous disintegration of the general willpower, the collapse of civic awareness with the loss of a sense of what is right - the last and final bastion of what is or is not moral
Borrelli Francesco Saverio
the goal is to depart
Ungaretti Giuseppe
the good thing about democracy is just this: everyone can say their piece but there's no need to listen to them
Biagi Enzo
the great events of the world take place in the brain (Oscar Wilde)
Wilde Oscar
the great merit of society is that it makes us appreciate solitude
Chincholles Charles
the great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes - Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick Stanley
the great torment in our lives stems from the fact that we are eternally alone, and all our efforts and actions are aimed only at fleeing from this solitude
Maupassant Guy de
the greatest of all the things that wisdom provides to make life sublimely happy is undoubtedly the possession of friendship
Epicurus
the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is the government of the United States of America (Martin Luther King)
King Martin Luther
the greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues
Descartes René
the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated (Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
the greedy dig their pit with their teeth
Estienne Henri
the growth of third world countries depends on demilitarization
Arias Oscar
the hardest of our battles is combatting ourselves, however the most satisfactory victory comes from conquering ourselves
Logau Friedrich von
the hare likes polenta. The cook said it
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
the hen is an egg's way of producing another egg - Samuel Butler
Butler Samuel
the hope of becoming rich is one of the most widespread causes of poverty
Tacitus
the hours are long and life is short
Fénelon François de Salignac de la Mothe-
the human imagination is immensely poorer than reality
Pavese Cesare
the human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter - Mark Twain
Twain Mark
the imagination is as good as many voyages and how much cheaper (George William Curtis)
Curtis George William
the important thing is not to have a lot of ideas, but to live one of them
Bernasconi Ugo
the journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse if he has time
Kraus Karl
the key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him. It isn't to anyone's advantage to see the truth - Bob Ezrin
Ezrin Bob
the killer instinct is, like many other instincts, innate in a human being. Man and death, man and cruelty, man and blood - they all go together. Not a pleasant state of affairs, but that is certainly how things are
Bolaño Roberto
the kiss is an ingenious expedient that prevents lovers from talking too much nonsense
Morandotti Alessandro
the last day of the year is not the last day of time
Drummond Carlos Andrade de
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges
France Anatole
the less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep
Bismarck Otto von
the less we have, the more we give. It seems absurd, but this is the logic of love
Madre Teresa di Calcutta
the limits of my language are the limits of my world
Wittgenstein Ludwig
the little I know, I owe to my ignorance
Guitry Sacha
the mad open up roads that later are taken by the sane
Dossi Carlo
the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason - G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton Gilbert Keith
the mafia is like any other business except that once in a while it uses firearms
Puzo Mario
the major sin is the sin of being born (Samuel Beckett)
Beckett Samuel
the man of the third millennium will have Bush's culture, Berlusconi's honesty and Putin's kind heart
Anónimo
the man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them (Mark Twain)
Twain Mark
the man who endeavors to purchase affection by benevolent actions becomes disillusioned by experience of human ingratitude - Bertrand Russell
Russell Bertrand
the man who has no imagination has no wings (Muhammad Ali)
Muhammad Ali
the man who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his mother tongue
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
the man who loses his honour for doing business loses both business and honour
Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de
the man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds - Mark Twain
Twain Mark
the market is a place where men may deceive one another
Anacharsis
the media are toys in the hands of the rich, and the rich use them to become even richer
Kapuściński Ryszard
the medical establishment has become a major threat to health - Ivan Illich
Illich Iván
the mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires - William Arthur Ward
Ward William Arthur
the memories that we have of one another, even when we are in love, are not the same
Proust Marcel
the memory left by a book is more important than the book itself
Bécquer Gustavo Adolfo
the memory of a human being is a marvellous thing although it is prone to error
Levi Primo
the memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still (Lord Byron)
Lord Byron
the moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick
Freud Sigmund
the more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity (Joseph Conrad)
Conrad Joseph
the more laws there are, the more thieves there are
Lao Tse
the more we go up in the world, the more insignificant we appear to those who are unable to fly
Nietzsche Friedrich
the more you have the more you want, the less you have the more you give
Anonymous
the more you resemble the idea you have imagined of yourself the more authentic you are
Almodóvar Pedro
the most dangerous food is wedding cake - James Thurber
Thurber James
the most democratic thing in the world is the dictionary: it is the only possession we have in common
Pivot Bernard
the most important book for a communist like me is the Bible
Vendola Nichi
the most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money - Joey Adams
Adams Joey
the most precious things in life are not those one gets for money (Albert Einstein)
Einstein Albert
the most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality - Heywood Broun
Broun Heywood
the most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion
Leopardi Giacomo
the nation that destroys its soil destroys itself - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt Franklin Delano
the new economy is perhaps the biggest mirage ever projected on the planet: a non-existent market for non-existent needs
Bocca Giorgio
the nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
Tanenbaum Andrew S.
the old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen - Robert Christgau
Christgau Robert
the oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought
Pythagoras
the one and only truth lies in instinct
France Anatole
the one who obeys is almost always better than the one who commands
Renan Ernest
the only beautiful eyes are those that look at you with tenderness
Chanel Coco
the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable - John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith John Kenneth
the only joy in this world is beginning. Living is beautiful because every moment of living is always a beginning
Pavese Cesare
the only mission the working class has is to set a good example - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
the only ones who are always coming back from somewhere are those who've never gone anywhere
Machado Antonio
the only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation - Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
the only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
the only struggle you lose is the one you abandon
Madres de Plaza de Mayo
the only tendency in modern cinema is to make a lot of money (Roman Polanski)
Polanski Roman
the only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing
Maurois André
the only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind (Albert Schweitzer)
Schweitzer Albert
the only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible (Richard M. DeVos)
DeVos Richard M.
the only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless
Chamfort Nicolas de
the only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school - George Bernard Shaw
Shaw George Bernard
the only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me - Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
the only useful answers are those that pose new questions
Foa Vittorio
the only victories you achieve by fleeing are those over women
Bonaparte Napoleon
the only way a reporter should look at a politician is down - Frank Kent
Kent Frank
the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not - Mark Twain
Twain Mark
the only way to preserve your culture is to put it in jeopardy
Andreu Paul
the only way to prevent others from knowing your limits is to never go beyond them
Leopardi Giacomo
the only wise men are those who live each day of their lives as if they were to die the same day or hour
Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de
the optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true - Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Robert
the order of the links was changed but the chain remained a chain
Rodari Gianni
the organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony - Paul Goodman
Goodman Paul
the original is unfaithful to the translation
Borges Jorge Luis
the paths of loyalty are always straight
Ortega y Gasset José
the pen is the tongue of the mind
Cervantes Miguel de
the perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
the photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a fraction of a second of reality
Cartier-Bresson Henri
the pleasure of living without trouble is well worth the trouble of living without pleasure
Sant'Agostino
the poet is like this monarch of the clouds riding the storm above the marksman's range; exiled on the ground, hooted and jeered, he cannot walk because of his great wings
Baudelaire Charles
the poet is worth what his best poem is worth
Pessoa Fernando
the point is not to humanize war but to abolish it
Einstein Albert
the point isn't doing many things, but to do everything with so much enthusiasm
Madre Teresa di Calcutta
the police force used to be run by men of integrity. That is a mistake which has been rectified (Joe Orton)
Orton Joe
the political left is an evil that only the presence of the right makes tolerable
D'Alema Massimo
the politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does
Barrès Maurice
the poor go to war to fight and die for the whims, wealth and excesses of others
Plutarch
the possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it - Anthony Burgess
Burgess Anthony
the preface is the most important part of a book. Even the critics read it (Philip Guedalla)
Guedalla Philip
the press does not want to inform the reader but to persuade him he's being informed
Dávila Nicolás
the price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side (James Baldwin)
Baldwin James
the primary objective for an educator is to produce autodidacts
De Montmollin Frère Daniel
the prince is the first servant of his State
Friedrich II von Preußen
the principle of education is to preach by example
Turgot Anne Robert Jacques
the prohibition against incest actually don't apply to self love - Yossi Sarid
Sarid Yossi
the public debt is big enough to take care of itself (Ronald Reagan)
Reagan Ronald
the public good consists of a great number of private evils
France Anatole
the punishment for a crime is having committed it; the penalty added by the law is superfluous
France Anatole
the pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement - George F. Will
Will George F.
the quality of a book depends on the reader
Praga Emilio
the ratio of literacy to illiteracy is unchanged, only nowadays the illiterates can read
Moravia Alberto
the reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more (Jonas Edward Salk)
Salk Jonas Edward
the root cause of diffusing mass ignorance is the fact that everyone knows how to read and write (Peter de Vries)
Vries Peter de
the salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself - John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith John Kenneth
the same words uttered by different mouths take on different, even antithetic, meanings
Morandotti Alessandro
the secret of happiness is to yield to temptations - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
the secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made - Groucho Marx
Marx Groucho
the secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made! (Arthur Bloch)
Bloch Arthur
the starry sky above me and the moral law within me
Kant Immanuel
the statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you - Rita Mae Brown
Brown Rita Mae
the strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
Kundera Milan
the stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything - Milan Kundera
Kundera Milan
the tactful aspect of audacity is knowing to what extent one can go too far
Cocteau Jean
the thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children (King Edward VIII)
King Edward VIII
the things we know best are the things we haven't been taught
Vauvenargues Luc de Clapiers Marquis de
the thought dies in the mouth
Parra Nicanor
the three things I always forget are names, faces and the third one I can't remember
Svevo Italo
the trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it - Franklin P. Jones
Jones Franklin P.
the trouble with capitalism is that capitalists are almost always very good at what they do within their company, but outside they are often dull and boring imbeciles, and sometimes even worse
Montanelli Indro
the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
Russell Bertrand
the trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time - Franklin P. Adams
Franklin Pierce Adams
the true value of a human being is determined by his ability to attain liberation from himself - Albert Einstein
Einstein Albert
the truth is as difficult to deny as it is to hide
Guevara Ernesto Che
the truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves, nor can it be found by using violence against outside enemies (Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
the twentieth century can be forgiven for everything, even the two World Wars and those that followed, the fashion shows and the Formula One races, but certainly not for having sacrificed the cinema for television
Pintor Luigi
the universal religion, for the majority of homo sapiens, is none other than football - George Steiner
Steiner George
the verb 'to read' does not tolerate the imperative. This is a characteristic it shares with other verbs like 'to love' and 'to dream'
Pennac Daniel
the very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us - Quentin Crisp
Crisp Quentin
the victor belongs to the spoils (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
Fitzgerald Francis Scott
the victor will not be asked afterwards, whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters but victory
Hitler Adolf
the virtue of the parents is a large dowry
Horatius Quintus Flaccus
the weaker the body the more it demands; the stronger it is the more it obeys
Rousseau Jean-Jacques
the wealth of the poor is represented by their children, that of the rich by their parents
Troisi Massimo
the white race is the cancer of human history. It is the white race and it alone - its ideologies and inventions - which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself (Susan Sontag)
Sontag Susan
the whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum - Havelock Ellis
Ellis Havelock
the wind is never favorable to those who don't know where they are going
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
the woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived - Elizabeth Jenkins
Jenkins Elizabeth
the words you use to describe your reality, create reality (Sir Martin Brofman)
Brofman Sir Martin
the world economy is the most efficient expression of organized crime. The international bodies that control currency, trade, and credit practice international terrorism against poor countries, and against the poor of all countries, with a cold-blooded professionalism that would make the best of the bomber terrorists blush
Galeano Eduardo
the world has the structure of language and language is moulded by the mind
Montale Eugenio
the world is a better place without Saddam. And without Bush......?
Anónimo
the world is a den of crazies
Campanella Tommaso
the world is a prison in which it is better to occupy a solitary-confinement cell
Kraus Karl
the world is destined to become even more comical; that is why humorists are the real precursors of our future civilisation
Brown Carl William
the world is full of wonderful books, that no one reads
Eco Umberto
the world is maternal for men and male chauvinist for women
Sanchez Belén
the world is not true, but it's real
Pessoa Fernando
the world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry
Freire Paulo
the world should laugh more. But after having eaten
Moreno Mario (Cantinflas)
the worldwide economy is today a gigantic casino
Castro Fidel
the worldwide shortage of food that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day of modern warfare - Peter Ustinov
Ustinov Peter
the worst kind of intolerance comes from what is known as reason
Unamuno Miguel de
the worst that can happen to a genius is to be understood
Flaiano Ennio
the writer who does not explore the depths will always stay afloat
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
the young delude themselves about their future; the old folks about their past
Décoly
the young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened - H. H. Munro
Munro Hector Hugh
then progress came and destroyed everything, even more than any war, because if wars destroyed our property, progress destroyed our very way of life
Ugolotti Bruno
there are doors to the sea that are unlocked with words
Alberti Rafael
there are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them
Matisse Henri
there are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When bought they stay bought (Bill Moyers)
Moyers William
there are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
there are many ways to arrive; the best is not to leave
Flaiano Ennio
there are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer
Ionesco Eugene
there are no facts, but only interpretations
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
there are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents (Leon R.Yankwich)
Yankwich Leon R.
there are no rules. All men are exceptions to a non-existing rule
Pessoa Fernando
there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators
Hugo Victor
there are occasions, situations and contexts in which violence, and therefore murder (violence carried to the extreme), naturally becomes concrete, present and a reality
Bolaño Roberto
there are people so poor that they only have money - Anonymous
Anonymous
there are people who know everything, but that's all they know
Machiavelli Niccolò
there are so many laws that no-one can rule out being hanged
Bonaparte Napoleon
there are things you should never do, not on sea or land: such as war
Rodari Gianni
there are two types of television: intelligent television which makes people difficult to govern, and the television of imbeciles which makes people easy to govern
Guéhenno Jean
there are two ways to achieve happiness: one is to play the fool, the other is to be a fool
Poncela Enrique Jardiel
there are words that should only serve once
Chateaubriand François-René de
there is a more terrible weapon than calumny: the truth
Talleyrand-Périgord Charles Maurice De
there is always a right way; there is always a wrong way. The wrong way always seems more reasonable (George Moore)
Moore George
there is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
there is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive - Jack London
London Jack
there is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide
Camus Albert
there is mutual advantage in that, even while men teach, they learn
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
there is no beginning and no end, only the infinite passion for life
Fellini Federico
there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Stevenson Robert Louis
there is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies (Winston Churchill)
Churchill Winston
there is no greatness where there is not simplicity
Tolstoy Leo
there is no happiness without freedom and no freedom without courage
Pericles
there is no justice in the fact that drugs can be freely had only in prisons
Anónimo
there is no love without suffering or causing suffering
Régnier Henri François Joseph de
there is no moderation in religion, reason is always desecrated by religion
Emin Patrick
there is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
Cicero Marcus Tullius
there is no passion in which the ego reigns so strongly as being in love; one is always more prepared to sacrifice the tranquility of the person being loved than to lose one's own
Rochefoucauld François de La
there is no path to peace. Peace is the path (Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
there is no sincerer love than the love of food (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
there is not the slightest doubt that sustainable development is one of the most destructive concepts - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Georgescu-Roegen Nicholas
there is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
there is nothing more useful and splendid than a dictionary as a plaything for children five years and older. Likewise, with a little luck, for good writers up to their hundredth year
García Márquez Gabriel
there is nothing potentially more dirty than a hidden war (Susan Sontag)
Sontag Susan
there is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher - Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith Oliver
there is one rule for politicians all over the world: don't say in power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible - John Galsworthy
Galsworthy John
there is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked - Groucho Marx
Marx Groucho
there is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way - Christopher Morley
Morley Cristopher
there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
there is only one thing in this world that never deceives: appearances
Bernasconi Ugo
there is only one thing that excites animals more than pleasure, and it is pain
Eco Umberto
there is only one war open to mankind and that is the war against our extinction (Isaac Asimov)
Asimov Isaac
there is something to be learned from a great man even when he is silent
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
there is something tragic in the fact that as soon as man had invented a machine to do his work he began to starve - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
there must be something wrong with work, otherwise the rich would have kept it all for themselves
Moreno Mario (Cantinflas)
there never was a good war or a bad peace - Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Benjamin
there where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too
Heine Heinrich
there will be vice as long as there are men
Tacitus
there's just one decorous stinginess, and that's the stinginess of words
Vigil Constancio
there's no curse greater than an idea propagated by violence (Ezra Pound)
Pound Ezra
there's no difference between reading and curiosity
Quignard Pascal
there's no harm in thinking
Guareschi Giovanni
there's nothing as hard as spotting an idiot, if he remains silent
Ercilla y Zuñiga Alonso de
there's only one good, Knowledge, and only one evil, Ignorance
Socrates
they can cut all the flowers, but they'll never stop the Spring
Neruda Pablo
they have developed treatments for unknown illnesses (Ronald Reagan)
Reagan Ronald
they want a war, but we shall not leave them in peace
Saramago José
they were saying to me that a few deaths were necessary to bring in a world in which no one would be killed any more
Camus Albert
they who live only for beauty always live for the moment
Kierkegaard Soren
they who seek to combat usage with grammar deceive themselves
Montaigne Michel de
thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it - G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton Gilbert Keith
thinking is always a terrible exercise
Panizza Oskar
thinking is the hardest work there is (Henry Ford)
Ford Henry
this life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds
Baudelaire Charles
this suspense is terrible. I hope it will last - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others - Groucho Marx
Marx Groucho
those ideas that seem an empty fantasy to contemporaries and obvious to posterity also include the introduction of a common language between different peoples
Zamenhof Ludoviko
those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night - Edgar Allan Poe
Poe Edgar Allan
those who write as they speak, and speak well, write badly
Buffon Conde de
thoughts are like a grain of sand in the power machine
Arpaia Bruno
thoughts draw back, objects move forward (Nina Ivanoff)
Nina Ivanoff
thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
time and the hour runs through the roughest day - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare William
time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending - Charles Chaplin
Chaplin Charlie
to arrange a library is a silent way of carrying on the art of critique
Borges Jorge Luis
to be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it (G. K. Chesterton)
Chesterton Gilbert Keith
to be ourselves we need to be someone
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
to be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretences but your own - Lionel Strachey
Strachey Lionel
to be perfect she lacked just one defect
Kraus Karl
to be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance (Jeremy Taylor)
Taylor Jeremy
to be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand
Ortega y Gasset José
to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness (Bertrand Russell)
Russell Bertrand
to believe in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made
Kafka Franz
to call itself civilized, society should accept reason and folly in equal measure
Basaglia Franco
to desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship
Sallustius Crispus Caius
to die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable (Erich Fromm)
Fromm Erich
to divorce because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married because you love him (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Zsa Zsa Gabor Sari
to find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two - Norman Douglas
Douglas Norman
to find a new country, and invade it has always been the same - Samuel Johnson
Johnson Samuel
to find happiness, one should not seek it
Anonymous
to have doubts about oneself is the first sign of intelligence
Ojetti Ugo
to have everything needed to be happy, is not a reason for being happy (Jacques Normand)
Normand Jacques
to improve one's style means to improve one's way of thinking
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
to lead does not mean to dominate, but to fulfil a duty
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
to love one's work is the nearest real approximation to happiness on earth
Levi Montalcini Rita
to love our enemies (as the Gospel asks) is not a job for men, but for angels
Borges Jorge Luis
to make a gift of culture is to make a gift of thirst. The rest is a consequence
Saint-Exupéry Antoine de
to marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
Capus Alfred
to most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Coleridge Samuel Taylor
to read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator. In learning to read well, scholarship is less important than instinct - W.H. Auden
Auden Wystan Hugh
to repent and then start again from the beginning - that's what life is
Cherbuliez Victor
to suffer without complaining is the only lesson we must learn in this life
Van Gogh Vincent
to tell the truth in bad faith should be considered dishonest
Kraus Karl
to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric
Adorno Theodor W.
to you, my holy language / to you, the one I adore / more than all the silver / and more than all the gold
Sephiha Haïm-Vidal
today's Don Quixotes don't fight against but for windmills
Anónimo
today, more than ever, cultured men have the duty to raise doubts rather than collect certitudes
Bobbio Norberto
too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair - George Burns
Burns George
too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude
Rochefoucauld François Duc de La
tourism is travelling very far in search of the desire to return home
Elgozy George
translating is the most profound form of reading
Paz Octavio
translating literature is like having sex: better to talk less about it and do it better
Casalegno Andrea
translations (like wives) are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive - Roy Campbell
Campbell Roy
translators are like portrait painters - they can prettify the copy but it must always resemble the original
Fréron Elie
translators are the draught horses of culture (Aleksandr Pushkin)
Pushkin Aleksandr
travel serves only to endear us more to the place where we were born
Serrat Noel Clarasó
treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
true achievement is to become the best that you can become (Harold Taylor)
Taylor Harold
true ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it
Popper Karl
true philosophy is learning to see the world again
Merleau-Ponty Maurice
true power is in the hands of whoever controls the mass media
Gelli Licio
truth does not reside in one dream alone but in many dreams
Pasolini Pier Paolo
truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it (Mark Twain)
Twain Mark
truth never damages a cause that is just (Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
truths that matter - important principles - are, in the final analysis, still only two or three. They are those that your mother taught you as a child
Biagi Enzo
try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
Einstein Albert
two things strike me: the intelligence of the beast and the bestiality of man
Tristán Flora
uncertainty is like a daisy whose petals you never quite finish plucking
Vargas Llosa Mario
unemployment amounts to a negation of the right to live and is worse even than death itself
Ortega y Gasset José
unforgettable days in one's life amount to five or six at most - the others are just there to make up the numbers
Flaiano Ennio
unfortunately, it is possible to be in love at the age of eighty. Actually, I write to forget about love
Borges Jorge Luis
unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations - Edward De Bono
De Bono Edward
unless men are free to be vicious they cannot be virtuous (Frank Meyer)
Meyer Frank
until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - everywhere is war (Bob Marley)
Marley Bob
upbringing is a way of passing on the shortcomings of parents to their children
Carrel Armand
usage is the best language teacher
Quintilianus
using your intellect free from restraint, that's true happiness
Aristotle
usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things - Russell Baker
Baker Russell
utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer, it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking
Galeano Eduardo
very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects
Herodotus
very often to be good we must stop being honest
Benavente y Martínez Jacinto
vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it - Finley Peter Dunne
Dunne Finley Peter
virtue: an act contrary to the will - Anonymous
Anonymous
vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing - Bernard Baruch
Baruch Bernard
war amounts to shedding blood in the search for peace, while peace is a continuation of combat without shedding blood
Anonimo
war is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce
Bierce Ambrose
war is all about the massacre of men who don't know each other, for the benefit of men who know each other but will not massacre each other
Valéry Paul
war is delightful to those who have had no experience of it
Erasmus von Rotterdam Desiderius
war is the most common form of modern terrorism
Strada Gino
warning: Health Authorities can be harmful
López Ana
watch your thoughts... they become your words. Watch your words... they become your actions. Watch your actions... they become your habits. Watch your habits... they become your character. Watch your character... it becomes your destiny (Frank Outlaw)
Outlaw Frank
water talks unceasingly but never repeats itself
Paz Octavio
we all have a common origin: we are all offspring of the evolution of the universe and the stars, and so true brothers and sisters
Hack Margherita
we all have to obey laws, but a lawyer is needed to understand them
Fumi Fabio
we and everything else are, after all, just words
Concha Víctor García de la
we are all amateurs, life is too short for us to be anything else (Charlie Chaplin)
Chaplin Charlie
we are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
we are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts - Harold Nicolson
Nicolson Harold
we are all very ignorant, but not all ignorant of the same things - Albert Einstein
Einstein Albert
we are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself - Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson
we are on a train travelling at three hundred kilometres per hour, we don't know where it's taking us and, what is more, we have realized there is no driver
Rubbia Carlo
we are our own memory, we are that chimerical museum of changing shapes, that heap of broken mirrors
Borges Jorge Luis
we are such stuff / as dreams are made on (William Shakespeare)
Shakespeare William
we are what we do to change what we are
Galeano Eduardo
we are what we eat
Feuerbach Ludwig
we are what we repeatedly do (Aristotle)
Aristotle
we believe only in what we see, so since the advent of television we believe in everything
Hildebrandt Dieter
we believe we are a real country, but the truth is we are little more than a landscape
Parra Nicanor
we can always stop ourselves on the way up, but never on the way down
Bonaparte Napoleon
we can do nothing worse to a person than busy ourselves exclusively with him
Canetti Elias
we can either overcome opposing ideas through discussion, or we have to let them be aired/heard. It is not possible to overcome such ideas by force as this prevents free development of our intelligence
Guevara Ernesto Che
we can invent only with memory
Karr Alphonse
we cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain (Alan Watts)
Watts Alan
we do not remember days, we remember moments
Pavese Cesare
we don't know what's happening to us - that's what's happening to us
Ortega y Gasset José
we don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish - John Culkin
Culkin John
we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are - Anaïs Nin
Nin Anaïs
we forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone
Rochefoucauld François Duc de La
we have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others
Rochefoucauld François Duc de La
we have been taught to believe that what is beautiful need not be useful and what is useful cannot be beautiful. I want to show that what is useful can also be beautiful (Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad
we have certainly been quick to forget the time when we were the emigrants
Agnelli Susanna
we have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly
Cioran Emile
we have globalised the circus but not bread
Anónimo
we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another - Jonathan Swift
Swift Jonathan
we have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it - George Bernard Shaw
Shaw George Bernard
we have nothing to fear but fear itself - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt Franklin Delano
we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
Wilde Oscar
we have to fight against language to prevent the imposition of its formulae, clichés and set phrases, everything that typifies a poor writer
Cortázar Julio
we inhabit a language rather than a country
Cioran Emile
we know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
we know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning - George Steiner
Steiner George
we lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves
Ferrante Elena
we make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
we must be modest and at the same time realise that others are inferior to us - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
we must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic - Winston Churchill
Churchill Winston
we must make way for the new generations for if we do not, they will impose themselves anyway
Lama Luciano
we must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means (Martin Luther King)
King Martin Luther
we only have the happiness we have given
Pailleron Eduard
we only hear questions that we are able to answer
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
we should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes (Henry David Thoreau)
Thoreau Henry David
we should think more of doing well than feeling well, then we would end up feeling better
Manzoni Alessandro
we still haven't learned that real cultural growth only comes with enjoyment, passion and laughter
Fo Dario
we work to earn our leisure
Aristotle
we would often be ashamed of our most well-intentioned actions if others could see what motivated them
Rochefoucauld François de La
we're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! - Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
we're born princes and the civilizing process turns us into frogs (Eric Berne)
Berne Eric
western science has managed only to advance from the simple to the complex, by way of the ineffectual
Crivellaro Marco
what I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again
Benoit Pierre
what I want is for everything to be round without, so to speak, a beginning or end of the figure anywhere, so that it makes one, lifelike harmonious whole
Van Gogh Vincent
what frightens me most is the winter of memory
Arreola Juan José
what has always made the State a hell on earth has been precisely mankind's attempt to turn it into a paradise
Hölderlin Friedrich
what is Man, that he should make plans?
Hofmannsthal Hugo von
what is art? Prostitution
Baudelaire Charles
what is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice
Baudelaire Charles
what is past is prologue (William Shakespeare)
Shakespeare William
what is robbing a bank compared to founding a bank?
Brecht Bertolt
what luck for rulers that men don't think
Hitler Adolf
what makes this a terrible world is that we strive with the same passion in seeking to be happy and in preventing others from being so
Rivarol Antoine de
what matters is not that which one says, but that which does not need to be said
Camus Albert
what matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it (Ezra Pound)
Pound Ezra
what really counts in life is done free
Magris Claudio
what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly
Lao Tse
what we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance - Havelock Ellis
Ellis Havelock
what we have in common is that we are all different from each other
Anónimo
what will be exhausted first - air or oil?
Anónimo
what would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Van Gogh Vincent
what you think is the summit is only a step up
Seneca Lucius Annaeus
what's in the writing of a book? Reading it is the hard bit
Bufalino Gesualdo
what, a Professional Register of Journalists! Just an idea propagated by pedants, bogus professors, would-be hacks, and people who are trying to prevent others from thinking for themselves. Such a register is a laughable non-starter and is immoral since it aims to put a limit on what has no limits and indeed shouldn't have any, and is inclined to restricting the free expression of the mind
Einaudi Luigi
whatever I don't know, I learnt at school
Flaiano Ennio
whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult (Charlotte Whitton)
Whitton Charlotte
whatever you want to say, there is only one noun to express it, one verb to animate it and one adjective to qualify it
Maupassant Guy de
when Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word 'reform' - Roscoe Conkling
Conkling Roscoe
when God is silent, you can make him say anything you want
Sartre Jean-Paul
when I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor have nothing to eat, they called me a communist
Câmara Dom Hélder
when I grow up, I want to be a little boy - Joseph Heller
Heller Joseph
when I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough (H.L. Mencken)
Mencken H.L.
when I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it (Clarence Darrow)
Darrow Clarence
when I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not - Mark Twain
Twain Mark
when I'm dead nobody will weep for me, and no earth will cover me as I am the very wind of freedom
Guevara Ernesto Che
when a banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is
Robespierre Maximilien
when a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong - Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke Arthur C.
when a government depends on bankers for money, they and not the heads of government control matters. The hand that gives holds sway over the hand that receives. Money has no homeland and financiers have no patriotism or decency - their only objective is gain
Bonaparte Napoleon
when a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her
Guitry Sacha
when a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity (George Bernard Shaw)
Shaw George Bernard
when a people no longer dares to defend its language, it is ripe for slavery
Gourmont Remy de
when a person claims to know what happiness is, one can sense that person has lost it
Maeterlinck Maurice
when a person reads it is an exercise in self-examination. A writer's work amounts only to providing the reader with a means of seeing within himself what he might not otherwise be able to discern
Proust Marcel
when childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay - Brian Aldiss
Aldiss Brian
when choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before - Mae West
West Mae
when man is no longer cold, hungry or afraid, he is dissatisfied
Flaiano Ennio
when people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other - Eric Hoffer
Hoffer Eric
when the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible - Jomo Kenyatta
Kenyatta Jomo
when the brain develops in the mother's womb, it is empty of ideas
Blanchot Maurice
when the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
when the language is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence - W. H. Auden
Auden Wystan Hugh
when the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything - Arnold Lobel
Lobel Arnold
when there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst - H. Allen Smith
Smith H. Allen
when two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary - William Wrigley Jr.
Wrigley William Jr.
when two personalities meet it is as if two chemicals are coming into contact: if there is any reaction at all, both of them undergo some transformation
Jung Carl
when virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
when we are ill we realise that we do not exist alone but chained to a different domain, from which we are separated by an abyss, which doesn't know us and by which it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body
Proust Marcel
when we say 'think', we mean think about death
Savinio Alberto
when will UNESCO get around to naming the planet a Patrimony for Humanity?
Anónimo
when you desire something, the entire universe conspires to realize your wish
Coelho Paulo
when you destroy monuments, spare the pedestals. A use can always be found for them
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
when you fall asleep, you forget yourself. And when you wake up, you remember yourself
Borges Jorge Luis
when you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reconsider - Mark Twain
Twain Mark
when you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
when you look deep into the eyes of another person, you are forced to look at yourself
Ben Jelloun Tahar
whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto it is worse when executed by two persons - and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein - George Washington
Washington George
whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
whenever you teach, teach your hearers to doubt whatever you teach
Ortega y Gasset José
where all men think alike, no one thinks very much (Walter Lippmann)
Lippmann Walter
where are you going, Ivan? I'm going to Minsk. You lie, Ivan! You tell me you're going to Minsk to make me believe you're going to Moscow, but you're really going to Minsk. You lie, Ivan!
Borges Jorge Luis
where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe - Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Thomas
where the sword of the law cannot reach, there reaches the lash of satire (A. Pushkin)
Pushkin Aleksandr
where there is much light, the shadow is deep
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Wittgenstein Ludwig
which clones more, genetics or TV?
Anónimo
who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
Grass Günter
who is the guiltiest of these two who misbehave; she who sins for pay, or he who pays for sinning?
De la Cruz Juana Inés
who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn't got in the way
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
whoever looks at his own failings fails to see those in others
Ali ibn Abi Talib
whosoever wants to travel towards the stars should not look for company
Hebbel Christian Friedrich
why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? - Holbrook Jackson
Jackson Holbrook
why do we generally avoid solitude? Because few of us are good company to ourselves
Dossi Carlo
why do we kill people who have killed other people? To tell other people that killing is wrong? - Norman Mailer
Mailer Norman
why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life (Charles Frohman)
Frohman Charles
why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? - Bertrand Russell
Russell Bertrand
why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? - Groucho Marx
Marx Groucho
wine is a grave danger to the (mental) health of someone who does not drink it
Anónimo
wisdom has less to do with destroying idols than in never creating them in the first place
Eco Umberto
wisdom is getting rid of the unnecessary (Lin Yutang)
Yutang Lin
wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world
Pessoa Fernando
witches ceased to exist when we stopped burning them
Voltaire
without money and lacking time, imagination is a mere fleeting dream that cannot be transformed into an event
Baudelaire Charles
women - they are attracted by the slightest thing and a compliment makes them hurry away
Quatorze Raymond
women are so hypocritical that all children firmly believe that their own mother was a saint
Gourmont Remy de
women do what they say one hundred per cent, whereas men stop at fifty per cent
Lelouch Claude
women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects - Oscar Wilde
Wilde Oscar
women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them
Chanel Coco
women take the shape of the dream that embraces them
Arreola Juan José
word makes men free. Whoever cannot express himself is a slave
Feuerbach Ludwig
words are all we have (Samuel Beckett)
Beckett Samuel
words are important if they are few
Romano Lalla
words are like money, one is worth as much as many and many are not worth as much as one
Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de
words are not created by academics in universities and suchlike, rather it is the man in the street who does so. Dictionary compilers almost always recognise them too late and embalm them in alphabetical order, in many cases when they have lost their original meaning
García Márquez Gabriel
words don't always agree with the heart
Metastasio Pietro
words take on the value that the listener attributes to them
Verga Giovanni
words that really become popular impoverish a language
Guitry Sacha
work distances us from three great evils: tedium, vice and need
Voltaire
work is less boring than play
Baudelaire Charles
work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do (Oscar Wilde)
Wilde Oscar
work makes for a shorter day and a longer life
Diderot Denis
writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered
Calvino Italo
writing is a way of talking without being interrupted
Renard Jules
writing is also made difficult by the illiteracy of others
Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
writing poetry is like making love: one will never know if one's joy is shared
Pavese Cesare
YES to the market economy NO to the market society
Jospin Lionel
yes to the commerce of culture, no to the culture of commerce
Anónimo
yes we are three times richer than our grandparents. But are we three times happier? (Tony Blair)
Blair Tony
yesterday's criminals are today's gentry and today's criminals will be tomorrow's gentry
Brown Carl William
you are Miss Smith, the daughter of multi-millionaire banker Smith, aren't you? No? I beg your pardon, for a moment I thought I had fallen in love with you - Groucho Marx
Marx Groucho
you are forgetting that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone but the earth itself to no one
Rousseau Jean-Jacques
you can be to the left of anything you like, but not of good sense
Biagi Enzo
you can be unfaithful, but never disloyal
García Márquez Gabriel
you can even shoot me, but you will not stop this country's march towards democracy
Djindjic Zoran
you can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough (Joseph Levine)
Levine Joseph
you can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving (Amy Carmichael)
Carmichael Amy
you can have language without money, property, government or marriage, but you cannot have money, property, government or marriage without language - John Searle
Searle John
you can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution - G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton Gilbert Keith
you can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him
Proust Marcel
you can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way - Will Rogers
Rogers Will
you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you (Brian Tracy)
Tracy Brian
you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist - Indira Gandhi
Gandhi Indira
you cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself
Galilei Galileo
you do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother (Albert Einstein)
Einstein Albert
you don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them (Ray Bradbury)
Bradbury Ray
you don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you are making progress (Malcolm X)
Malcolm X
you don't translate what the author wrote, but what he meant to say, this is why computers will never be able to translate
Anónimo
you go round and round and when you stop, you fall to the ground
Bene Carmelo
you grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself - Ethel Barrymore
Barrymore Ethel
you have not understood anything as you are an average man. An average man is a monster, a dangerous delinquent, a conformist, a racist, a slave-driver and a man who couldn't care less about politics
Pasolini Pier Paolo
you have ten minutes at your disposal to put an idea into action before it goes back to dreamland Buckminster Fuller Richard
you know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question
Camus Albert
you love a city not for its seven or seventy-seven wonders, but because it has an answer to your special question
Calvino Italo
you need to have a streak of idealistic lunacy in you to be a lexicographer, as it is impossible to take a photo of language
Seco Manuel
you only have to improve a person to ruin him
Wilde Oscar
you only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough
Lewis Joe E.
you vote every time you go shopping
Zanottelli Alex
you will have plenty of time if you don't waste it
Bernard Fontenelle de
you wouldn't be looking for me if you hadn't already found me
Pascal Blaise
young couples have no idea how much they owe to television. Once upon a time you even had to speak to your partner
Loi Isidoro
young people nowadays assume that money is everything, and when they get older they know it
Wilde Oscar
your body, treated well, can last a life time
Daudí Enrique Clarasó
youth is a disease from which we all recover
Fuldheim Dorothy
