Life is that brief interlude between nothingness and eternity.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid doing entirely.
Half the things that people do not succeed in, are through fear of making the attempt
James Northcote
I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.
Elmer Diktonius
It is double the pleasure to cheat a cheater.
Jean de la Fontaine
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
Jean Baptiste Molière
We learn of the history that we haven't learned anything of the history.
George Bernard Shaw
Stupidity is not knowing how dumb you are.
The future is like a baboons ass, colorful and full of shit.
Arne Anka
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
Ageing isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
Ezra Pound
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Irving Caesar
Smile -- things may get worse more slowly
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
Confucius
