📿 Proverbs & sayings
The most used Turkish proverbs
- 1 Drop by drop, a lake forms.
- 2 The dog barks, the caravan moves on.
- 3 The devil meddles in hasty work.
mrtrailrunner
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💬 Quotes & phrases
🗨️ Famous quotes
Italo Calvino's most famous quotes
- 1 The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
- 2 A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- 3 Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.
C. Martino
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The best Albert Einstein quotes (that he actually said)
- 1 Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
- 2 Imagination is more important than knowledge
- 3 The important thing is not to stop questioning
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Voltaire's real quotes
- 1 We must cultivate our garden.
- 2 All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
- 3 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
H. Legrand
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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
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🗨️ Famous quotes
Nelson Rodrigues' most famous quotes
- 1 Only prophets see the obvious.
- 2 Any individual is more important than the Milky Way.
- 3 Nothing is more unreliable than memory. I even dare say that memory is a swindler…
M. Rodrigues
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💪 Motivational quotes
Ayrton Senna's most inspiring quotes
- 1 Whoever you are, always aim for great strength, great determination and (…) great faith in God, and one day you will get there.
- 2 … When I have to overtake, I will overtake. Every driver has his limit. Mine is a little above everyone else's.
- 3 What matters is winning. Everything, always. This idea that what matters is taking part is pure demagoguery.
M. Rodrigues
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🗨️ Famous quotes
Machado de Assis' most famous lines
- 1 To the worm who first gnawed the cold flesh of my corpse I dedicate, as a fond remembrance, these posthumous memoirs.
- 2 The greatest sin, after the sin itself, is making the sin public.
- 3 Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans bonfires.
G. Marques
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Friedrich Schiller's best-known quotes
- 1 An axe in the house saves calling the carpenter.
- 2 If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few; pleasing many is bad.
- 3 The wise man plans ahead.
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🎬 Movie quotes
The greatest movie quotes of all time (AFI top 50)
- 1 Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
- 2 Here's looking at you, kid.
- 3 Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
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Anton Chekhov's most famous quotes
- 1 Brevity is the sister of talent.
- 2 Everything in a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
- 3 Good breeding isn't not spilling sauce on the tablecloth, but not noticing when someone else does.
Мария Макарова
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🤣 Jokes
Every No. 1 "salaryman senryu" in Japan (1991–2024)
- 1 まだ寝てる 帰ってみれば もう寝てる
- 2 『ゴハンよ』と 呼ばれて行けば タマだった
- 3 いい家内 10年経ったら おっ家内
retro_nara
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Cesare Pavese's most beautiful quotes
- 1 The only joy in the world is beginning. It is good to live because living is beginning, always, at every moment.
- 2 Writing poems is like making love: you will never know if your joy is shared.
- 3 If it is true that we get used to pain, why do we suffer more and more as the years go by?
Arianna C.
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The most famous quotes from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
- 1 Manuscripts don't burn.
- 2 Never ask for anything! Never, and above all from those more powerful than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
- 3 A brick will never fall on anyone's head out of the blue.
piterwordsmith
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Clarice Lispector's most beautiful quotes (with sources)
- 1 I do not want the terrible limitation of those who live only by what can make sense. Not me: what I want is an invented truth.
- 2 Let no one be fooled: simplicity is only achieved through a great deal of work.
- 3 I think Saturday is the rose of the week.
Sofia Almeida
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Machiavelli's most famous lines (the ones he actually wrote)
- 1 … one who deceives will always find someone who will let himself be deceived.
- 2 … men do harm either out of fear or out of hatred.
- 3 … it is much safer to be feared than loved.
Arianna C.
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Primo Levi's most important quotes (with the book they come from)
- 1 Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous; more dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to obey.
- 2 It easily happens to someone who has lost everything to lose himself.
- 3 The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man; it is a property of the human substance.
C. Martino
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🗨️ Famous quotes
Joseph Brodsky's most famous lines and quotes
- 1 I want to choose neither country nor graveyard. To Vasilievsky Island I will come to die.
- 2 If you happen to be born in an Empire, it is best to live in a remote province by the sea.
- 3 Freedom is when you forget the tyrant's patronymic.
Мария Макарова
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Adam Mickiewicz's most famous lines (with the work they come from)
- 1 Measure your strength by your aims, not your aims by your strength!
- 2 Youth, give me wings! Let me soar above the dead world into the paradise of illusion.
- 3 Born of a foreign mother, his blood that of ancient heroes, and his name is forty-four.
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Alda Merini's most beautiful lines and quotes
- 1 Poets work at night / when time does not press on them, / when the noise of the crowd falls silent / and the lynching of the hours is over.
- 2 Colours ripen at night.
- 3 Pain is nothing but the surprise of not knowing ourselves.
C. Martino
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's best aphorisms
- 1 I cannot say whether things will get better if they change; but I can say they must change if they are to get better.
- 2 It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
- 3 A book is a mirror: if an ape looks in, no apostle can look out.
Kathrin Schuster
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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
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Molière's most famous lines
- 1 What the devil was he doing in that galley?
- 2 Cover that bosom, which I must not see.
- 3 Ah! Though I am devout, I am no less a man.
Théo Rousseau
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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.
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