Famous Quotes and Proverbs

All things transient are but a parable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Miguel de Cervantes

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Aristotle

Character is what can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such stuff as madmen tongue.

William Shakespeare

In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.

Paulo Coelho

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain...

Friedrich Nietzsche

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Oscar Wilde