Victor Borge Famous Quotes
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge Quotations
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Dawson Trottman
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
Bhagavad Gita
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Sir Winston Churchill
"Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing."
Golda Meir
"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it."
Malcom Gladwell
"Whatever your advice, make it brief."
Horace
"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
Socrates
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
"...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way."
Imgard Schloegl