Enrique Jardiel Poncela Famous Quotes
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
Enrique Jardiel Poncela Quotations
"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Confucius
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
Plato
"If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
Don Marquis
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell