Leo Tolstoy
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Marlene Dietrich
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marcus Aurelius
Remember that all is opinion.
Honoré de Balzac
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Yves Saint Laurent
Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Émile Zola
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.