Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a
deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on
earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The greatness of a society and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.
Gandhi
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Children have a natural antipathy to books--handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Einstein’s last interview
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Distrust interested advice.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Wit has always an answer ready.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf—it's almost a law.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Abstain and enjoy.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
You see, but you do not observe.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Insanity: repeating the same behavior and expecting different results.
Einstein
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Fine feathers don't make fine birds.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Self-help is the best help.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Better no rule than cruel rule.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Si vis pacem, para bellum. (хочешь мира — готовься к войне)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Brain, n.: An apparatus with which we think we think.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The greatness of a society and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.
Gandhi
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Children have a natural antipathy to books--handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Einstein’s last interview
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Distrust interested advice.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Wit has always an answer ready.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf—it's almost a law.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Abstain and enjoy.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
You see, but you do not observe.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Insanity: repeating the same behavior and expecting different results.
Einstein
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Fine feathers don't make fine birds.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Self-help is the best help.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Better no rule than cruel rule.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Si vis pacem, para bellum. (хочешь мира — готовься к войне)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll(1832-1898)
Brain, n.: An apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human intereaction The world will have a generation of idiots.
A. Einstein
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human intereaction The world will have a generation of idiots.
A. Einstein
