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 | That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 12-25-2024 |
 | Everything is pathology, except for indifference. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 12-24-2024 |
| Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 12-24-2024 |
| I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 12-24-2024 |
| Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die? — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 12-23-2024 |
 | This is more than a crime. It is a mistake. — Prince Metternich, 1773-1859, Austrian statesman 12-08-2024 |
 | Hearing a phrase that seems very right to you is like seeing your soul in the mirror. — Christine Orban, 1954-, French writer 12-08-2024 |
 | People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-08-2024 |
 | The art of politics is to bring things about in such a way that it benefits you to be honest. — Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715-1771, French philosopher 12-07-2024 |
 | In the end, the truth always wins. Unfortunately, we are still at the beginning. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
| In the theater, the director is a god. But, unfortunately, the actors are atheists. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
| The naked truth cannot compete successfully with a lie dressed in the latest fashion. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
| How to keep the peace, unfortunately, remains a military secret. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
 | If God does not present himself to atheists, it is because he is afraid that they will convert him to atheism. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 12-07-2024 |
 | Having good health means being able to abuse it with impunity. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 12-07-2024 |
| There is one undeniable sign that you recognize that you love someone romantically, and that is when their face arouses more desire in you than any other part of their body. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 12-07-2024 |
 | Everyone in Italy is 20 years old, including me. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 12-07-2024 |
| Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 12-07-2024 |
 | If the sun enters the house, it also enters a little into your soul. — Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect 12-07-2024 |
| The house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect 12-07-2024 |
 | All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Duty is the essence of manhood. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Most battles are won before they are ever fought. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| All great achievements require time. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
 | We are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 12-07-2024 |
| A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 12-07-2024 |
| Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 12-07-2024 |
 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-07-2024 |
| If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-07-2024 |
| When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-07-2024 |
 | The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| A gentleman is never in a hurry. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
 | There is much more love in friendship than friendship in love. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 12-06-2024 |
 | Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch monk & author 12-06-2024 |
| Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch monk & author 12-06-2024 |
 | If we combine the dark past with the bright future, we will have the gray present. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 12-06-2024 |
 | A politician cannot have a career if he does not have a good memory, because he needs to remember the promises he must forget. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| If I had known I would have loved her this much, I would have loved her even more. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 12-06-2024 |
 | He who thinks he is always right is always wrong in that first. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| We are young when we hope that each day will be different from the day before; old when we hope that each year will be like the last. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| From violin, a man as he ages becomes a cello, then a double bass: a thick body, a deep voice and not much to say. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| A snob is someone who prefers to travel standing first class rather than sitting in second class. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| I knew a time when the main pollution came from people shaking their carpets out of the window. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| The truth is a torch that sheds light in the fog, without dispelling it. — Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715-1771, French philosopher 12-06-2024 |
| If we define intelligence as the ability to learn new things, to find solutions to problems that arise for the first time, then who is more intelligent than a child? — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| Journalism can take you everywhere, as long as you quit in time. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 12-06-2024 |
| It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 12-06-2024 |
| The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| You shouldn’t underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| I’d rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-06-2024 |
| If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-06-2024 |
| Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-06-2024 |
| Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-06-2024 |
| I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me “I love you.” … There is an African saying which is: “Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-06-2024 |
| Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-06-2024 |
| When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-06-2024 |
| They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-06-2024 |
 | Audacity, then again audacity, always audacity and the Fatherland will be saved! — Danton, 1759-1794, French revolutionary (De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace et la Patrie sera sauvée!) 12-06-2024 |
 | Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. — Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation 12-06-2024 |
| After bread, education is the first need of the people. — Danton, 1759-1794, French revolutionary 12-05-2024 |
 | The day you spent without passionate love was the most wasted day of your life. — Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131, Persia poet & polymath 12-05-2024 |
| Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet. — Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131, Persia poet & polymath 12-05-2024 |
 | The advice of adults to young people is aimed at how to make them stop behaving like young people. — Francis De Croisset, 1877-1937, Belgian writer 12-05-2024 |
 | Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. — Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist 12-05-2024 |
| I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. — Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation 12-05-2024 |
| When I am angry, I can pray well and teach well. — Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation 12-05-2024 |
| The Turks are the people of God’s wrath. — Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation 12-05-2024 |
 | For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 12-05-2024 |
 | Everything is in utter chaos; this is an excellent situation. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 12-05-2024 |
| Learn from the masses, and then teach them. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 12-05-2024 |
| Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 12-05-2024 |
 | Seducing women is a man's most exciting adventure. — Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893, French writer 12-05-2024 |
 | Solitude is a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. — Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist 12-05-2024 |
| Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist 12-05-2024 |
 | Life shrinks or expands according to our courage. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 12-05-2024 |
| The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 12-05-2024 |
| How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 12-05-2024 |
 | Say what you will, it is better to be left than never to have been loved. — William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer 12-05-2024 |
| Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer 12-05-2024 |
 | Pity the rich: if they save their money they are considered miserly, if they waste it on themselves, selfish, and if they distribute it to the poor, stupid. — André Prévot, 1910-????, French intellectual 12-05-2024 |
 | I like the idea of marriage, because it is an act of heroism. — Claude Lelouch, 1937-, French film director 12-05-2024 |
 | If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. — Cardinal Richelieu, 1585-1642, French cardinal & Prime minister 12-05-2024 |
 | Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923 12-05-2024 |
| I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923 12-05-2024 |
| Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923 12-05-2024 |
 | Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. — Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish writer & philosopher 12-05-2024 |
 | Women are like cigars: the first few puffs are the best. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 12-05-2024 |
| I wish I was a woman, so I could have a relationship with a man like me. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 12-05-2024 |
| I prefer to vote for those crooks in power than for those who will become crooks once they gain power. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 12-05-2024 |
| One of the last privileges of men is that they don't have to be handsome to be charming. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 12-05-2024 |
| I'm stupid, I agree, but I'm terrified when I see what all these smart people have turned the world into. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 12-05-2024 |
 | It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. — Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913 12-05-2024 |
 | In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. — François Truffaut, 1932-1984, French film director 12-05-2024 |
 | When someone accuses you of only doing what you want, they usually mean you’re not doing what they want. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 12-05-2024 |
| Historians falsify the past. Ideologists falsify the future. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-04-2024 |
| The critic is a eunuch in the harem of art. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-04-2024 |
| An old man is a child with a past. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-04-2024 |
| When a new wind blows, empty heads are the first to bend. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-04-2024 |
| An empty head nods more easily. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-04-2024 |
| Since I had seen X Files I understand my parents much better. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-04-2024 |
