Sefer Hasidim Famous Quotes
"If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant."
Sefer Hasidim Quotations
Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare
"All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own."
Oscar W Firkins
"I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life."
Nina Berberova
"This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
Al Capone
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen
Evelyn Waugh
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
Thomas Carlyle
"Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."
Anatole France
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn