Plato photo

“Love sees no enemies…fear does.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
Amy Tan photo
Ann Brashares photo

“The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.”

Nahj al-Balagha

“The use of video evidence is not always conclusive, but it sure beats the memory bank of most witnesses.”

Jack Gibson (1929–2008) Australian rugby league player and coach

Gibson is a massive supporter of modern technology being used in top-grade Rugby League to clear up any decisions that the match referee may not be able to adjudicate on definitively.

Roger Federer photo

“I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.”

Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player

When asked what it was like to wait 27 years to win the French Open. http://198.105.192.83/general/tennis/story?storyId=4760203

Dr. Seuss photo

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Often attributed to Dr. Seuss without citation; also cited as an anonymous proverb.
This quote has also been attributed to Gabriel García Márquez, in Spanish: "No llores porque ya se terminó, sonríe porque sucedió."
Compare lines from In Memoriam A.H.H. of Tennyson:
  'Tis better to have loved and lost
  Than never to have loved at all.
Disputed
Variant: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Patricia Highsmith photo

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

Source: The Price of Salt

Paul Sérusier photo
Herman Melville photo
Thomas Aquinas photo

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

William Shakespeare photo

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Source: Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

William Shakespeare photo
Philippa Gregory photo
Simon Wiesenthal photo