He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melanc

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Major

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahlil Gibran

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Milan Kundera

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de la Bruyere

Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.

Toba Beta

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Malcolm Muggeridge, The Most of

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

Thabo Mbeki

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Napoleon Hill

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor