Famous Quotes

"Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return."

"Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women"

"I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them."

"Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know."

"If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it."

"Don't kill me because I'm gay,pray for me for it is God who created me."

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all."

"We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry."

"Understand that nothing happensunless it is God's will anddo what you like.What can be simpler than that?"

"We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us."

"The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had."

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place"

"A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth andsun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you,like the sunset."

"He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another man. In our shame is our glory. Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it."

"I am not the river I am the net."

"Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom."

"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins."

"Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful."

"Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfash-ionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes, you can now enjoy hybrid styles of morality. It's the way of the world—philosophy starting to look more and more like business administration.Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you."

"You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened..."

"Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door."

"There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one."