1) It's
not that I am afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
Howard, Leslie, Actor, producer, director, writer, English (1893 - 1943)
Allen, Woody, film star, film director,
American (1935- )
Pacino, Al, film star, American (1940 -
) |
2) A
whole is that which has a beginning , a middle, and an end. |
Aristotele, Greek philosopher (384-322 BC)
Plato, Greek philosopher (c.428-347 BC)
Socrates, Greek philosopher (469-399 BC) |
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty
knows extremly expensive it is to be poor. |
Baldwin, James, novelist and essayist, American (1924-1987)
Williams, Tennessee, dramatist, American
(1911-1983)
Heller, Joseph, novellist, American
(1923-1999) |
4) Here
stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. |
Luther, Martin, German protestant theologian (1483-1546)
Calvin, John, French protestant reformer
(1509-1564)
Becket, St Thomas á, English Saint and
martyr, archbishop of Canterbury (1118-1170) |
5) Democracy
is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from
time to time.
|
Masaryk, Tomás (Garrigue) Founder-president of the Czechoslovakian Republic
(1850-1937)
Roosevelt, Franklin D, 32nd president
of the US, American (1882-1945)
Churchill, Winston, Prime Minister
1940-45 and 1951-55, English (1874-1965) |
6) Men
should be bewailed at their birth, at not at their death. |
Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Albans, philosopher and statesman, English
(1561-1626)
Montesquieu, (Charles-Louis de
Secondant) political philosopher, French (1689-1755)
Feuerbach, Ludwig (Andreas)
philosopher, German (1804-1872) |
7) Chastity
- the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. |
Huxley, Aldous, novelist, English (1894-1963)
Maugham, W. Somerset, novelist, English
(1874-1965)
Jerome, K.Jerome, writer, English
(1859-1927) |
8) But
where are the snows of yesteryear? |
Shakespeare, Williams dramatist, English ( 1564-1616)
Schiller, Friedrich von , dramatist and
poet, German (1759-1805)
Villon, François, poet, French (1431 -
unknown) |
9) The
first law of dietetics seems to be : if it tastes good, it's bad for you. |
Taylor, Elizabeth (Rosemond), film star, born in London, American (1932 - )
Asimov, Isaac, Russian-born biochemist and
science fiction writer , American (1920-1992)
Kennedy, Jackie , US First Lady
1961-1963, American, (1929-1994) |
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the
naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
|
Szasz, Thomas, Hungarian born psyhiatrist, American (1920- )
Olivier, Laurence (Kerr) Baron, actor,
producer and director, English (1907-1989)
Maclean, Alistair, writer, English
(1922-1987) |
I came, I saw, I conquered.
|
Napoleon I, Emperor (1804-1815) French, (1769-1821)
Caesar, Gaius Julius, general and
statesman, Roman (c.101-44 BC)
Nelson, Horatio, Lord, British Admiral
(1758-1805) |
12) Monet
is only an eye, but what an eye! |
Cézanne, Paul, impressionist painter, French (1839-1906)
Pissarro, Camille, impressionist
(pointilist) painter, French (1830-1903)
Renoir, Pierre Auguste, impressionist
painter, French (1841-1919) |
13) A
good lyric should be ryhmed conversation.
|
Gershwin, Ira, songwriter, American, (1896-1983)
Lennon, John, pop star, composer,
songwriter, English (1940-1980)
Dylan, Bob Folk-singer and songwriter,
American (1941 - ) |
14) Some
are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
|
Edison, Thomas Alva, Inventor, American ( 1847-1931)
Franklin, Benjamin , inventor,
scientist, politician, American (1706-1790)
Heisenberg, Werner (Karl),
theoretical physicist, German (1901-1976) |
15) I
dislike this idea that if you're a black person in America then you must be called an
african-american.I'm not an African, I'm an American. Just call me black, if you want to
call me anything.
|
Amstrong, Louis, singer and jazz musician, American (1901-1971)
Goldberg, Whoopi , film star, American,
(1949 - )
King, Martin Luther, civil rights leader,
American (1929-1968) |
16) It
may be that when the angels go about their task of praising God, they play only Bach. I am
sure, however, that when they are together en famille, they play Mozart.
|
Abbot, Lyman, American divine and author (1835-1922)
Barth, Karl, Swiss Protestant theologian
(1886-1968)
Sartre, Jean Paul, French novelist,
philosopher (1905-1980) |
17) Fame
and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
|
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, moralist and
essayist, French (1533-1592)
Ford, Harrison, film star, American (1942 -
)
Keeler, Christine, former modell and
showgirl, English (1942 - ) |
18) Every
form is addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or
idealism.
|
Kant, Immanuel, philosopher, German (1476-1559)
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, political
philosopher, educationist, Swiss/French (1712-1778)
Jung, Carl Gustav, psychologist, Swiss
(1875-1961) |
19) Victor
Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
|
Cocteau, Jean, dramatist and film director, French (1889-1963)
de Beauvoir, Simone, existentialist
writer and novellist, French (1908-1986)
Brecht, Bertolt, poet playwrite and
theatre director, German (1898-1956) |
20) Mankind
has probably done more damage to the earth in the 20th century than in all of previous
human history.
|
Attenborough, Sir David (Frederick), naturalist and
broadcaster, English (1926 - )
Cousteau, Jean, naval officer and
underwater explorer, French (1910-1997)
Uemura, Naomi, explorer and mountanieer,
Japanese ( 1942-1984) |
