Showing posts with label Japanese proverbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese proverbs. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
- Japanese Proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for
the whole. It would seem strange
if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to
find disordered minds; our planet is
the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
(I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Quotaria

"If you believe everything
you read, better not read."
- Japanese Proverb

"Critics search for ages for the wrong
word, which, to give them credit, they
eventually find."
- Peter Ustinov

"What is youth except a man or a woman
before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
- Evelyn Waugh

"So much of what we call management consists
in making it difficult for people to work."
- Peter Drucker

"Never keep up with the Joneses.
Drag them down to your level."
- Quentin Crisp

"The whole world is in revolt.
Soon there will be only five
Kings left--the King of England,
the King of Spades, The King of
Clubs, the King of Hearts, and
the King of Diamonds."
- King Farouk of Egypt