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To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 3 likes | |
Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes | |
You tasted it. Isn’t that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That’s all we’re given in life, that’s all we’re given of life. A taste. There is no more. | |
The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes | |
Russians imitate French ways, but always from a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 2 likes | |
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes | |
To be able to make a conversation, you must know many useless things. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 4 likes | |
Nothing is blessed in every part. Nihil est ab omni parte beatum. 15 likes | |
The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes | |
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. — Edgar J. Mohn, (unidentified) 20 likes | |
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. | |
For there is but one problem: the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes | |
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time! — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 5 likes | |
To lead people, walk beside them. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 8 likes | |
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 12 likes | |
We need never be ashamed of our tears. | |
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes | |
Virtue is the health of the soul. | |
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. | |
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry V 4 likes | |
It is the mark of a divine mind to be always contemplating something noble. Θείου νου το αεί τι διαλογίζεσθαι καλόν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes | |
The world is rejuvenated, but as Heine so wittily remarked, it was rejuvenated by romanticism to such a degree that it became a baby again. | |
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. | |
A good conscience is eight parts of courage. | |
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes | |
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. | |
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. 3 likes | |
Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion. | |
A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 3 likes | |
Love the sinner and hate the sin. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 6 likes | |
We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 2 likes | |
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. | |
Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything. — from the film The Karate Kid (1984) 3 likes | |
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes | |
The world is the reflection of the intelligence and the thinking of a few superior people. | |
They never fail who die in a great cause. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes | |
Plato found philosophy made of brick, and made it of gold. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 4 likes | |
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 17 likes | |
Written orders, always. Semper letteris mandate. 15 likes | |
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. |