Famous Quotes and Proverbs

I wear not motley in my brain.

William Shakespeare

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eros guides us to Logos.

Plato

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.

Oscar Wilde

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

Don't disturb yourselves. I am not mad, I am only a murderer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most.

Montaigne

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Voltaire

To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.

Victor Hugo