Showing posts with label Heinrich Heine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heinrich Heine. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Quote (#573)

"We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler

"The right to swing my fist ends
where the other man’s nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the
world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."
- Heinrich Heine

"I respect faith, but doubt is
what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner

"Never ascribe to malice that which can
adequately be explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can’t it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Friday, August 07, 2009

Quotes

"In all recorded history there has not been
one economist who has had to worry about
where the next meal would come from."
- Peter Drucker

"I am no more humble than
my talents require."
- Oscar Levant

"There are more fools in the
world than there are people."
- Heinrich Heine

"The reason there is so little crime in
Germany is that it's against the law."
- Alex Levin

"'Who are you and how did you get in here?'
'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'"
- Leslie Nielsen


"Great artists suffer for the people."
- Marvin Gaye