Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Great souls endure in silence.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

The will of man is his happiness.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?;"Roger von Oech

And the people would eat up all the food, gobble, gobble, yum, yum, and it would become excrement and memories. What then for little Ecuador?;"Kurt Vonnegut, "Galapagos

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Schiller is killer, and Goethe is moethe.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

I wish I had a schilling for every senseless killing - I'd buy a government.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Appearance rules the world.

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Votes should be weighed not counted.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.