Quotes
Pretty girls make graves.
1958 | EN | QUOTE | Jack Kerouac
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
1956 | EN | QUOTE | C. S. Lewis
Kdyby někdo mohl běhat a neunavil se při tom, pochybuju, že by chtěl dělat něco jiného.
1956 | CS | QUOTE | C. S. Lewis
Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří.
1954 | CS | QUOTE | Jan Werich
Not all those who wander are lost.
1954 | EN | QUOTE | J. R. R. Tolkien
I don't even know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.
1951 | EN | QUOTE | Jerome D. Salinger
Vlastně ani nevím, proč jsem běhal. Nejspíš se mi chtělo.
1951 | CS | QUOTE | Jerome D. Salinger
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
1948 | EN | QUOTE | Richard P. Feynman
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
1936 | EN | QUOTE | F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
1935 | EN | QUOTE | Upton Sinclair
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
1928 | EN | QUOTE | John A. Shedd
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
1922 | EN | QUOTE | George Santayana
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
1922 | EN | QUOTE | Ludwig Wittgenstein
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
1914 | EN | QUOTE | Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
1909 | EN | QUOTE | Jack London
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
1906 | EN | QUOTE | George Santayana
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
1890 | EN | QUOTE | Arthur Conan Doyle
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity...
1859 | EN | QUOTE | Charles Darwin
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
1832 | EN | QUOTE | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
1822 | EN | QUOTE | Stendhal
Given for one instant an intelligence that could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated ... an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis ...
1814 | EN | QUOTE | Pierre-Simon De Laplace
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
1770 | EN | QUOTE | Voltaire
I would have written less, but I didn't have enough time.
1656-12-04 | EN | QUOTE | Blaise Pascal
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
1615 | EN | QUOTE | Cardinal Bellarmine
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
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