It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Sir Philip Sidney
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Either I will find away or I will make one
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
Gregory Nunn
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.
Peter McWilliams
The love of one
Pau (Pablo) Casals
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Pat Riley
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
Terry Riley
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
I is another.
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
Michel de Montaigne
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Lec
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
John Malkovich
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Stephane Mallarme
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