Selected quotes - page 2

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. View quote
Winston Churchill
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
When you die people cry and beg for you to come back, but sometimes when you're here, they don't even show they care about you. View quote
Eat to live, not live to eat. View quote
Socrates
Experience is the teacher of all things. View quote
Julius Caesar
Reading is the best teaching. View quote
Aleksandr Pushkin
And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. View quote
Voltaire
- How can you believe in God? Have you seen your God? - I haven't actually seen God. But I have performed many brain surgeries, and when I opened the skull, I never saw a mind in there either. And I never found a conscience there either. View quote
Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky)
Friends are like shoes. You may have many, but you only walk with the ones that feel comfortable. View quote
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. (George Herbert)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice. View quote
Aristotle
The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. View quote
Mark Twain
A clear conscience fears neither lies, nor rumors, nor gossip. View quote
Ovid
Better bread with salt in peace and without sorrow than many expensive dishes in grief and suffering. View quote
John Chrysostom
Poverty consists not in the decrease in one's possessions, but in the increase in one's greed. View quote
Plato
A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. View quote
Pavle (Serbian)
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. View quote
Plato
Hell can't be made attractive, so the devil makes attractive the road that leads there. (Basil of Caesarea)
If you can help a person help, if you cannot help - pray, if you do not know how to pray - think about the person in a good way! And this will already be a help, because godly thoughts are also a weapon! View quote
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Everyone shouts – you must learn to forgive. But no one even thinks that you must learn not to offend and not to cause pain! View quote
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. View quote
Mark Twain
Without love living is easy; but it's meaningless. View quote
Leo Tolstoy