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“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
1950s
Variant: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Variant: You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice...
Will Smith (1968) American actor, film producer and rapper
"Will Smith" article in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 edition), p. 406
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“History is written by the winners.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Context: During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners.
