Quotes

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.” Thomas Mann

“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” Thomas Mann

“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” Thomas Mann

“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” Isaac Newton

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” Isaac Newton

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” Isaac Newton

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Isaac Newton

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton

“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.” Aristotle Onassis

“Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.” Aristotle Onassis

“I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.” Aristotle Onassis

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” Aristotle Onassis

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle Onassis

“The more you own, the more you know you don't own.” Aristotle Onassis

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” Aristotle Onassis

“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” Aristotle Onassis

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” Aristotle Onassis

“It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.” Quintilian

“Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.” Quintilian

“ Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.” Quintilian

“ That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.” Quintilian

“ The perfection of art is to conceal art.” Quintilian

“Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.” Quintilian

“When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.” Quintilian

“A liar should have a good memory.” Quintilian

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” Quintilian

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Rodin

“ By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” Socrates

“ Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” Socrates