Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Izaak Walton
No man can lose what he never had.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Yves Saint Laurent
Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Honoré de Balzac
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
In fact history does not belong to us but rather we to it.