Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Paulo Coelho photo
Elbert Hubbard photo

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.

Gianni Agnelli photo

“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”

Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman

Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com

Epictetus photo

“Only the educated are free.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.

Sigmund Freud photo

“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications

Ray Bradbury photo

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451

Jean Cocteau photo

“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Martin Luther King, Jr. quote: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Bob Dylan photo

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Gertrude Stein photo

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Anton Chekhov photo

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

Honoré de Balzac photo

“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'épouvantable dans le suicide.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman

Maurice Merleau-Ponty photo
Ed Sheeran photo

“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”

Ed Sheeran (1991) English singer-songwriter and producer

Song Beautiful People

“On that day all the gods looked down from heaven upon the ship and the might of the heroes, half-divine, the bravest of men then sailing the sea.”

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure, Lines 547–549 (tr. R. C. Seaton)

Dwight D. Eisenhower photo
P. W. Botha photo

“We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.”

P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister

As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27