Recommended quotes

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“Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.”

“All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?”

“what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..”

“Revolutionaries knew quite well that the autocratic Empire, with its hangmen, its pogroms, its finery, its famines, its Siberian jails and ancient iniquity, could never survive the war.”

“Columbus was not the first one to discover America, only the first to patent it.”

“Man invented the car to comfortably sit in jams.”

“Never curse an illness; better ask for health.”

“A woman withers when she is watered only with tears.”

“Modern civilization is highly computerrorized.”

“Hatred is like a Hydra - the more heads one chops off, the stronger it grows.”

“Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and to discover the inside.”

“Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.”

“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”

“Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.”

“Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.”

“Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.”

“Now may I have
all these things.”

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”