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Quotations
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 7 likes | |
What gets measured gets managed. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 6 likes | |
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes | |
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes | |
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes | |
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede: not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes | |
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes | |
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes | |
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes | |
I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 2 likes | |
When it comes to feelings, anything that can be measured has absolutely no value. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes | |
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. | |
Men have always detested women‘’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. | |
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher | |
The jealousy of other painters has always been the thermometer of my success. | |
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. |
Latin Quotes
Use the hours, don’t count them. Utere, non numera. — Medieval Sundial Motto 89 likes | |
If we may compare small things with great… Si parva licet componere magnis. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 14 likes |
Funny Quotes
It doesn’t matter what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 5 likes | |
When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
Man is the measure of all things. Πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον έστιν άνθρωπος. — Protagoras, 487-412 BC, Ancient Greek sophist 56 likes | |
I want to survey the air for you and parcel it into acres. Γεωμετρήσαι βούλομαι τον αέρα υμίν διελείν τε κατά γύας. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Birds 3 likes |
Proverbs
Words should be weighed and not counted. 5 likes | |
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. 4 likes | |
We will be measured with the same measure that we measure others. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
You think too much.That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything. — from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) 9 likes | |
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. — from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) 5 likes | |
You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. — from the film The Bucket List (2007) 3 likes |