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Seize the day. Carpe diem. 69 likes | |
The world is a stage, life is a passage. You came, you saw, you departed. Ο κόσμος σκηνή, ο βίος πάροδος. Ήλθες, είδες, απήλθες. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 37 likes | |
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Romeo & Juliet 32 likes | |
It’s later than you think. Serius est quam cogitas. — Sundial motto 22 likes | |
Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.” — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 20 likes | |
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 19 likes | |
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 19 likes | |
Everyone smiles in the same language — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 18 likes | |
Much, not many. Multum, non multa. (meaning: take much care but not of many things; [replace “take care” with “earn” or whatever]) 16 likes | |
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 13 likes | |
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 12 likes | |
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 11 likes | |
Character is destiny. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes | |
Broken hearts are for assholes. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician (song title from the album “Sheik Yerbouti”, 1977) 11 likes | |
In an ugly and unhappy world, the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 11 likes | |
Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away. Τους δε νόμους τοις αραχνίοις ομοίους· και γαρ εκείνα, εάν μεν εμπέση τι κούφον και ασθενές, στέγειν· εάν δε μείζον, διακόψαν οίχεσθαι. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 11 likes | |
Ever to excel. Αιέν αριστεύειν. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad VI 10 likes | |
Sex is God's joke on human beings. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 10 likes | |
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 10 likes | |
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 10 likes | |
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 10 likes | |
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 8 likes | |
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 8 likes | |
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 8 likes | |
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 8 likes | |
Every harlot was a virgin once. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 7 likes | |
There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff. — Finn Taylor, 1958-, American film director 7 likes | |
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 7 likes | |
Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 6 likes | |
The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 likes | |
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes | |
That which is used, gets stronger. That which is not used wastes away. Ότι χρήσις κρατύνει, αργίη δε τήκει. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 6 likes | |
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 6 likes | |
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes | |
All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. — Anonymous 5 likes | |
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 5 likes | |
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes | |
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 5 likes | |
Give me chastity and continence, but not right now. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 5 likes | |
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 5 likes | |
The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 4 likes | |
We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ The Tempest 4 likes | |
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 4 likes | |
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 4 likes | |
Never allow a person to tell you “no” who doesn't have the power to say “yes”. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 4 likes | |
To read them all, reckon 150,000 years. — Slogan of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2014) 3 likes | |
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 3 likes | |
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes | |
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes | |
Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes | |
If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes | |
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes | |
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 2 likes | |
As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. — Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ Ithaka 2 likes | |
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes | |
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes | |
The only joy in the world is to begin. | |
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. |