🗨️ Famous quotes
Diogenes of Sinope's most famous sayings
- 1 If you are rich, when you like; if you are poor, when you can.
- 2 Stand a little out of my sunlight.
- 3 I am looking for a man.
N. Farina
❤ 0 · ▲ 1 · 11 items
💬 Quotes & phrases
🗨️ Famous quotes
Franz Kafka's best quotes (with sources)
- 1 The longer you hesitate at the door, the more of a stranger you become.
- 2 A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
- 3 Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
Carina
❤ 0 · ▲ 1 · 15 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
The most famous quotes from The Twelve Chairs
- 1 And maybe I should also give you the key to the flat where the money is?
- 2 The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!
- 3 How much for the opium of the people?
Мария Макарова
❤ 0 · ▲ 1 · 14 items
📿 Proverbs & sayings
The most popular Polish proverbs
- 1 As you make your bed, so you will sleep.
- 2 A Pole is wise after the damage is done.
- 3 Where two fight, the third one profits.
Aleksandra Piotrowska
❤ 0 · ▲ 1 · 16 items
📿 Proverbs & sayings
The most famous Italian proverbs
- 1 He who goes slowly goes safely and goes far.
- 2 He who sleeps catches no fish.
- 3 Between saying and doing there's the sea.
saucy_genova
❤ 0 · ▲ 1 · 16 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Pramoedya Ananta Toer's most famous quotes
- 1 One may be as clever as the sky is high, but as long as one does not write, one will be lost to society and to history.
- 2 An educated person must learn to be fair already in their thoughts, let alone in their deeds.
- 3 Love is beautiful, Minke, too beautiful, the thing one can find in this short human life.
Eko Utami
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 13 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Mahmoud Darwish's most famous lines
- 1 On this earth there is what makes life worth living.
- 2 I long for my mother's bread, my mother's coffee, my mother's touch.
- 3 And I love my life because if I died I would be ashamed of my mother's tears.
يوسف التازي
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 13 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Atatürk's best-known quotes (with sources)
- 1 Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation.
- 2 The Republic wants from you generations free in thought, free in conscience and free in knowledge.
- 3 In a country without freedom there is death and decay. Freedom is the mother of all progress and salvation.
sarcasm
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 14 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
The most famous quotes from The Master and Margarita
- 1 Manuscripts don't burn.
- 2 Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
- 3 People are people… ordinary people… only the housing problem has spoiled them…
Айгерим
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 14 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Hermann Hesse's most beautiful quotes (with sources)
- 1 And in every beginning dwells a magic that protects us and helps us to live.
- 2 The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must destroy a world.
- 3 I wanted only to try to live what sprang from within me. Why was that so very difficult?
retrozocker_dresden
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Josep Pla's most famous quotes
- 1 In this aspect of life there are friends, acquaintances and people you just say hello to.
- 2 Every year the peasants build the landscape. And the result never fails.
- 3 In matters of life I have always been very tolerant; with adjectives I never would be.
Albert Casals
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 13 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
The best aphorisms of Joan Fuster
- 1 Any politics we do not make ourselves will be made against us.
- 2 Always claim the right to change your mind: it is the first thing your enemies will deny you.
- 3 Aphorisms —mine like everyone else's— are always false, intrinsically false. This one too.
Berta Vidal Puig
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
The best aphorisms of Stanisław Jerzy Lec
- 1 Think before you think.
- 2 Everything has already been written; fortunately, not everything has been thought yet.
- 3 If only the scapegoat could be milked as well!
tripnerd.lazy
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Federico Fellini's most famous quotes
- 1 All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
- 2 I am autobiographical even when I talk about a sole.
- 3 I don't want to demonstrate anything; I want to show.
Federico Monti
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 11 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Johan Cruyff's most famous sayings
- 1 Italians can't beat you, but you can lose to them.
- 2 Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
- 3 If it isn't going well, then it isn't going well.
L. van den Berg
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 10 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Dostoevsky's most famous quotes
- 1 Beauty will save the world.
- 2 Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?
- 3 Man is a mystery. It must be solved.
the_wordsmith
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Hegel's best-known sentences
- 1 The true is the whole.
- 2 The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
- 3 When philosophy paints its grey in grey, a shape of life has grown old.
naschkatze_ruhrpott
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Marguerite Yourcenar's most beautiful lines
- 1 There is no unhappy love: we only possess what we do not possess. There is no happy love: what we possess, we no longer possess.
- 2 We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with pain.
- 3 Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been able to stay alone.
Elise Leclercq
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 11 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Marie Skłodowska-Curie's most famous words
- 1 I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
- 2 A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena that impress him like a fairy tale.
- 3 Radium should not enrich anyone. It belongs to all people.
Aleksandra Piotrowska
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Karl Kraus's best aphorisms
- 1 Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
- 2 To have no thoughts and be able to express them: that is what makes a journalist.
- 3 The historian is not always a backward-looking prophet, but the journalist is always one who knew everything beforehand, afterwards.
fraunetzfund
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 14 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Otto von Bismarck's best-known quotes – real and attributed
- 1 Rest assured, we are not going to Canossa, neither in body nor in spirit.
- 2 Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak. It will know how to ride.
- 3 We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
Kathrin Schuster
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 13 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Theodor Fontane's best quotes
- 1 That is too wide a field.
- 2 Words of farewell must be short, like declarations of love.
- 3 Between arrogance and humility stands a third thing to which life belongs: courage.
dichter
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 13 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
The most famous lines from Pan Tadeusz
- 1 Lithuania! My homeland! You are like health; only he who has lost you knows how much you must be prized.
- 2 Holy Virgin, who guards bright Częstochowa and shines in the Gate of Dawn!
- 3 For Paris prides itself on changing fashions, and whatever the French invent, the Poles will love.
tripnerd.lazy
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 14 items
🗨️ Famous quotes
Lu Xun's most famous quotes
- 1 In fact there were no roads on earth; when many people walk the same way, it becomes a road.
- 2 Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
- 3 Hidden in my little tower, a world of my own, I care not whether it's winter, summer, spring or autumn.
frame24_lost
❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items