Henrik Ibsen Famous Quotes
"What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself."
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
"What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less."
"Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat."
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
"Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too."
Henrik Ibsen Quotations
"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
Andrew Brown
Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
Colin
"Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Sri da Avabhas
"For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous."
Publilius Syrus
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone."
Tommy Cooper
"Hard work spotlights the character of people some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
Sam Ewig