Miscelaneous Flashcards
miscelaneous quotes (27 cards)
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
St. Augustine
“The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Carl Jung
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
David Bowie
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
André Gide
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
Mark Twain
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
George Bernard Shaw, Candida, I
“The successful among us delay gratification and bargain with the future.”
Jordan Peterson
“Dos cosas the definen: tu actitud cuando no tienes nada y tu humildad cuando lo tienes todo.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Se necesita ser muy feliz, tener el espíritu completamente lleno de satisfacciones para no sentir el hastío más insoportable a la vista de un cielo siempre azul encima de un campo siempre verde”
Julián del Casal
“A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”
Marquess of Halifax
“The fly sat upon the axletree of the chariotwheel and said, What a dust do I raise!”
Francis Bacon
“Love is like the measles—all the worse when it comes late in life.”
D. W. Jerrold
“It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters as what’s on the chairs.”
W. S. Gilbert
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
St. Augustine
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden
“The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it.”
Will Foley
“Beauty is a shortlived reign.”
Socrates
“Quién desea publicar su virtud no actúa por virtud, sino por la gloria”
Séneca
“Si tu cuerpo te limita, no dejes que tu mente también lo haga”
Stephen Hawking
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set”
Lin Yutang, escritor y pensador
“No te apresures a perdonar. La misericordia también corrompe”
Nelson Rodrigues, periodista, escritor y dramaturgo brasileño
“WHEN YOU MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN OF ANOTHER NATIONALITY, DO IT WELL. BECAUSE YOU REPRESENT AN ENTIRE COUNTRY.”
GEORGES ST-PIERRE
“I want to see you shoot the way you shout.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
MARCEL PROUST
