Ludovico Ariosto Famous Quotes
"Nature made him, and then broke the mold."
Ludovico Ariosto Quotations
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
Saint Augustine
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles De Gaulle
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou
"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home."
Dave Barry
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.
R E Hellmund
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Roosevelt Eleanor
"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
Miguel Cerbantes