—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist

—  Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

—  Christine Orban, 1954-, French writer

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

—  Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist

—  Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936

—  Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet

—  Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976

—  George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet

—  André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism

—  Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist

—  François Truffaut, 1932-1984, French film director

—  Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Italian writer

—  Giorgos Seferis, 1900-1971, Greek poet, Nobel 1963

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

—  Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian

Κάτοπτρον είδους χαλκός εστί, οίνος δε νοός.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian

—  International proverb

—  from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)