Measurements

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru

—  George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims

—  John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach

—  T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948

—  Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter

—  Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer

—  Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

—  Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer

—  Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher

—  Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter

—  Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer

Utere, non numera.

—  Medieval Sundial Motto

Si parva licet componere magnis.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

—  Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian

—  Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian

Πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον έστιν άνθρωπος.

—  Protagoras, 487-412 BC, Ancient Greek sophist

Γεωμετρήσαι βούλομαι τον αέρα υμίν διελείν τε κατά γύας.

—  Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Birds

—  International proverb

—  Yiddish proverb

—  French proverb

—  from the film Zorba the Greek (1964)

—  from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939)

—  from the film The Bucket List (2007)