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“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
“If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw me in jail.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VI, 6
Variant: The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, entry in Mozart's souvenir album (1787-04-11) from Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon [Harper-Collins, 1966, ISBN 0-060-92692-9], p. 312.
Misattributed
“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in Vincent's letter, from Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh : The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17
Variant translations: The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
As quoted in Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By (1999) by Mary Engelbreit
I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
1880s, 1888
Variant: There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Source: The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author
“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA439&dq=%22when+i+do+good+i+feel+good%22: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In illustration of his religious code I once heard him say that it was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." <br class="br">Posthumous attributions
“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
C.G. Jung book Psychology and Alchemy
CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Context: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.