Quotes
In total there are 444 quotes in this list. Showing results 351-375.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
EN | QUOTE | Francis Bacon
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
EN | QUOTE | Chris Hedges
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
EN | QUOTE | Henny Youngman
The soul invariably travels at the speed of a camel.
EN | QUOTE | (Arabic saying)
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.
EN | QUOTE | W. H. Auden
The sustainability of the environment is ensured by the co-existence of species that by definition do not engage in fruitful intercourse.
EN | QUOTE | Anthony Judge
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
EN | QUOTE | Hermann Hesse
The two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
EN | QUOTE | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The world has persisted many a long year, having once been set going in the appropriate motions. From these everything else follows.
EN | QUOTE | Lucretius
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
EN | QUOTE | Benjamin Disraeli
Theories are cheap; proof is precious.
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There are different kinds of rules. From the simple comes the complex, and from the complex comes a different kind of simplicity. Chaos is order in a mask.
EN | QUOTE | Terry Pratchett
There are many good people who are beneficially stimulated by some, but not all, manmade arrangements of colors and shapes on flat surfaces, essentially nonsense.
EN | QUOTE | Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
EN | QUOTE | William Somerset Maugham
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
EN | QUOTE | Voltaire
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt.
EN | QUOTE | John Adams
There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags will not wave in a vacuum.
EN | QUOTE | Arthur C. Clarke
There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
EN | QUOTE | Douglas Noel Adams
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity.
EN | QUOTE | Saint Augustine
There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
EN | QUOTE | Ovid
There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person.
EN | QUOTE | Garrett Hardin
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
EN | QUOTE | Samuel Butler
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
EN | QUOTE | Aristotle
There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking.
EN | QUOTE | Margaret Mitchell
They hang the man, and flog the woman, That steals the goose from off the common; But let the greater villain loose, That steals the common from the goose.
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