Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary
truth--that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence
moves, too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish Proverb.

..but I've never been in love.
Hedford

God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.
Kronecker

Carpe diem, quam minimus credula postero [Seize today, and put as little trust
as you can in tomorrow].
Horace.

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them.
Johnson.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz.

Few people know how to be old.
La Rochefoucauld.

Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh.

You may be dissapointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try.
Beverly Sills.

I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught.
Winston Churchill

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Crows everywhere are equally black.
Chinese Proverb.

A great worrior? Wars not make one great.
Yoda.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel.

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly
move the world.
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To choose time is to save time.
Francis Bacon.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Horace

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking
them.
Jane Austen

The only reward of virtue is virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.
William M. Holden

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should
go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson.

All in life is a waking dream and in death is the final awakening.
Q.

The most precious of all possessions is a wise and loyal friend.
Darius

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
George Eliot.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It
Notepads.

If there are no cigars in Heaven, I shall not go.
Mark Twain

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway.

God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

SWINDON: What will history say? BURGOYNE: History, sir, will tell lies as
usual.
George Bernard Shaw

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very
childish.
T.S. Eliot.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to
enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the
thinking.
Lyndon Baines Johnson.

And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face.
Phil Collins.

When I abuse the language, I call it 'art' and call myself an artist; when you
abuse the language, I call it 'wrong,' call myself a critic, and assume an air
of unimpeachable authority.
Fennec A. Churl, 1995.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly.
from Desiderata

No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have
learned.
Yoda.

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.
Chinese Proverb.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The Merchant of Venice.

.. The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand ...
Frank Herbert

An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire

Dans : frustrarea verticala a unei dorinte orizontale

Inspiration is the mother of invention, desperation is the father.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul Erdos

Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are
beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
Paul Erdos

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
Paul Erdos

Succesul inseamna a fi in stare sa mergi din esec in esec, fara sa-ti pierzi
entuziasmul. 
Winston Churchill

Batranetea ne ia in primire cand incepem  sa deschidem poarta tristetii si a
incruntarii.
Gabriel Liiceanu