24.06.2005
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Erica Jong

27.06.2005
Everything that is and everything that we are, ultimately, is of words.
- Victor Garcia de la Concha

28.06.2005
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
- Stanley Kubrick

29.06.2005
What has always made the State a hell on earth has been precisely mankind’s attempt to turn it into a paradise.
- Friedrich Hölderlin

01.07.2005
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
- Henry Kissinger

04.07.2005
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
- Winston Churchill

05.07.2005
The quality of a book depends on the reader.
- Emilio Praga

11.07.2005
Only someone who has no fear of dying for the truth is worthy of speaking it.
- Jose Maria Vargas Villa

12.07.2005
I would like to see priests getting married, hetero-and homo-sexuals alike.
– Anonymous

13.07.2005
Only through usage shall words be made good, true and legitimate words of a language.
– Allesandro Manzoni

15.07.2005
Uncertainty is like a daisy whose petals you never quite finish plucking.
– Mario Vargas Llosa

18.07.2005
We don’t know what’s happening to us - that’s what’s happening to us.
- José Ortega y Gasset

19.07.2005
Our morals rectify our instinctive errors, and love our moral errors.
- José Ortega y Gasset

20.07.2005
Wisdom is getting rid of the unnecessary.
- Lin Yutang

21.07.2005
Science is anything that is always open to discussion.
- José Ortega y Gasset

22.07.2005
Language is a sign, the most important sign of our human makeup.
- Octavio Paz

25.07.2005
The denial of cultural rights to minorities is as disruptive of the moral fabric of mainstream society as is the denial of civil rights.
- Joshua A Fishman

26.07.2005
Let whoever can’t do what he wants want what he can do.
- José Ortega y Gasset

27.07.2005
Specialisation in the extreme translates as the highest degree of lack of culture.
- José Ortega y Gasset

28.07.2005
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mahatma Gandhi

29.07.2005
We should think more of doing well than feeling well, then we would end up feeling better.
- Alessandro Manzoni

02.08.2005
I am I plus my circumstances.
- José Ortega y Gasset

03.08.2005
Yes we are three times richer than our grandparents. But are we three times happier?
- Tony Blair

04.08.2005
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- José Ortega y Gasset

05.08.2005
Two things strike me: the intelligence of the beast and the bestiality of man.
- Flora Triztan

09.08.2005
Men are not ashamed to think something dirty, but they are ashamed when they imagine that others might believe them capable of these dirty thoughts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

10.08.2005
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw

11.08.2005
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
- George Bernard Shaw

12.08.2005
Some of the greatest love affairs I’ve known involved one actor, unassisted.
- Wilson Mizner

15.08.2005
Lawyer - one who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation.
- H. L. Mencken

16.08.2005
Never before has there been such a wide difference between those who work and those who make money without working.
- Vandana Shiva

17.08.2005
Dictionaries need to be corrected continually, like maps.
– Carlo Dossi

18.08.2005
Almost all physicians have their favourite diseases.
- Henry Fielding

19.08.2005
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
– Jose Luis Borges

22.08.2005
Work distances us from three great evils: tedium, vice and need.
– Voltaire

24.08.2005
Maybe Ethics is a science that has disappeared from the whole world. It does not matter, we will have to invent it again.
– Jose Luis Borges

25.08.2005
Simplicity is the form of real greatness.
– Fransesco de Sanctis

26.08.2005
If inspiration comes to me, it will find me painting.
– Pablo Picasso

29.08.2005
Hope is alright for breakfast, but it makes a very poor dinner.
– Francis Bacon

30.08.2005
You love a city not for its seven or seventy-seven wonders, but because it has an answer to your special question.
- Italo Calvino

31.08.2005
in certain situations unkind words are best…
- Anonymous

02.09.2005
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
- Mark Twain

05.09.2005
A good friend is someone from whom we do not keep secrets, and who nevertheless appreciates us.
- León Daudi

06.09.2005
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
- George Chapman

07.09.2005
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding.
- Nicolás Dávila

08.09.2005
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
- Henry Ford

09.09.2005
In Italy the majority of politicians don’t fight for projects, but to defend their own interests.
- Indro Montanelli

12.09.2005
I believe I have found the missing link between animals and civilized man. It is us.
- Konrad Lorenz

13.09.2005
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
- Winston Churchill

14.09.2005
Ignorance is closer to the truth than a priori knowledge.
- Denis Diderot

15.09.2005
Until the colour of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - everywhere is war.
- Bob Marley

16.09.2005
The deepest thing in man is his skin.
- Paul Válery

19.09.2005
Language is the skin of the soul.
- Fernando Lázaro Carreter

20.09.2005
How many lives there are in one life, how many men there are in one man.
- Givanni Papini

21.09.2005
What is art? Prostitution.
- Charles Baudelaire

22.09.2005
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other.
- Roland Barthes

23.09.2005
People do not die for lack of incomes. They die for lack of access to resources.
- Vandana Shiva

26.09.2005
Britain is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex.
- Jackie Mason

27.09.2005
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
- Jules Renard

29.09.2005
Our intellect not only makes us more rational, unfortunately it also makes us more dangerous.
- Simon Wiesenthal

30.09.2005
The primary objective for an educator is to produce autodidacts.
- Frére Daniel De Montmollin

03.10.2005
What, a Professional Register of Journalists! Just an idea propagated by pedants, bogus professors, would-be hacks, and people who are trying to prevent others from thinking for themselves. Such a register is a laughable non-starter and is immoral since it aims to put a limit on what has no limits and indeed shouldn’t have any, and is inclined to restricting the free expression of the mind.
- Einaudi Luigi

04.10.2005
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
- Bertrand Russell

05.10.2005
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

06.10.2005
Only a fool would choose war over peace - for in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers their sons.
- Herodot

07.10.2005
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde

10.10.2005
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
- Mahatma Gandhi

11.10.2005
Men of few words are the best men.
- William Shakespeare

12.10.2005
Frankly speaking, you sometimes have to get annoyed to make things work well.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

13.10.2005
To suffer without complaining is the only lesson we must learn in this life.

- Vincent van Gogh

14.10.2005
Since their birth the great banks, decorated with national titles, were only associations of private speculators, who placed themselves by the side of governments…
- Karl Marx

17.10.2005
In times of war, the law falls silent.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

18.10.2005
The British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world in search of a decent meal.
- Bill Marsano

19.10.2005
The foreigner is within us. And when we flee from or struggle against the foreigner, we are fighting our own unconscious.
- Julia Kristeva

20.10.2005
Here never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

21.10.2005
And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.
- Daniel Defoe

24.10.2005
A disadvantageous peace is better than the most righteous war.
- Erasmus av Rotterdam

25.10.2005
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
- Theodor Adorno

26.10.2005
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

27.10.2005
If we want an end to ethnic conflict we have to invest less in war and more in the culture of peace.
- Federico Mayor Zaragoza

28.10.2005
Jeg er omgivet af præster, der uophørligt gentager, at deres rige ikke er af denne verden, men som i mellemtiden grådigt rager alt til sig, som kommer inden for deres rækkevidde.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

31.10.2005
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw

01.11.2005
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
- Albert Einstein

02.11.2005
Der er flere døde end levende og antallet af døde bliver større. De levende er en mangelvare.
- Eugene Ionesco

03.11.2005
Non-communication is not a state of death, but no longer being able to be understood certainly is.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini

07.11.2005
Ignorance is the mother of sexual happiness and bliss.
- Giordano Bruno

08.11.2005
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
- Bertrand Russell

09.11.2005
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

10.11.2005
I’m all for respect for the law as long as it is used to protect the less fortunate among us.
- Romani Prodi

11.10.2005
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
- Jorge Luis Borges

14.11.2005
To love our enemies (as the Gospel asks) is not a job for men, but for angels.
- Jorge Luis Borges

15.11.2005
Unfortunately, it is possible to be in love at the age of eighty. Actually, I write to forget about love.
- Jorge Luis Borges

16.11.2005
The beauty of war is that each leader of a band of assassins has his flag blessed and invokes God before setting off to exterminate his neighbors.
- Voltaire

17.11.2005
The hope of becoming rich is one of the most widespread causes of poverty.
- Tacitus

18.11.2005
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- H. L. Mencken

21.11.2005
Word makes men free. Whoever cannot express himself is a slave.
- Ludwig Feuerbach

22.11.2005
When you fall asleep, you forget yourself. And when you wake up, you remember yourself.
- Jorge Luis Borges

23.11.2005
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When bought they stay bought.
- William Moyers

24.11.2005
I really do feel that genuine translation of text requires understanding of the text, and understanding requires having lived in the world and dealt with the physical world and is not just a question of manipulating words.
- Douglas Hofstadter

25.11.2005
Whatever I don’t know, I learnt at school.
- Ennio Flaiano

28.11.2005
Don’t allow the imposition of the liberty of speech before having the liberty of thought.
- Stanislaw J. Lec

29.11.2005
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Groucho Marx

30.11.2005
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
- Jorge Luis Borges

01.12.2005
There are no rules. All men are exceptions to a non-existing rule.
- Fernando Pessoa

02.12.2005
There’s no curse greater than an idea propagated by violence.
- Ezra Pound

05.12.2005
I believe that some day we will deserve to be free of governments.
- Jorge Luis Borges

06.12.2005
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
- Leon Trotsky

07.12.2005
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
- Jorge Luis Borges

08.12.2005
A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.
- Michel de Montaigne

09.12.2005
I call a man, one who is master of his tongue.
- Don Lorenzo Milani

12.12.2005
For pengar kan ein få alt, heiter det. – Nei, ein kan ikkje det. Ein kan kjøpa seg mat, men ikkje mathug; dropar, men ikkje helse; mjuke senger, men ikkje svevn; lærdom, men ikkje vit; stas, men ikkje venleik; glans, men ikkje hygge; moro, men ikkje glede; kameratar, men ikkje venskap; tenarar, men ikkje truskap; gråe hår, men ikkje ære; rolege dagar, men ikkje fred. Skalet av alle ting kan ein få for pengar. Men ikkje kjernen; den er ikkje for pengar fal.
- Arne Garborg

13.12.2005
Soccer is beginning to be a lie as is well documented by the media.
- Jorge Valdano

14.12.2005
Life is not worth living if you have not had a real taste for what it has to offer.
- Emmanuel Wathelet

15.12.2005
Man knows no more than any other animal - he knows less! Other animals know what they need to know - we don’t.
- Fernando Pessoa

16.12.2005
For some communists, if you are an anticommunist, you are a fascist. This is so incomprehensible as to say that if you are not a catholic, you are a mormon.
- Jorge Luis Borges

17.12.2005
It is hard to be sincere if you are intelligent, in the same way as being honest when you are ambitious.
- Fernando Pessoa

20.12.2005
Chips are one of the most spiritual creations of Parisian genius.
- Maurice Edmond Sailland dit Curnonsky

21.12.2005
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Robert L. Stevenson

22.12.2005
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
- Tom Robbins

23.12.2005
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

27.12.2005
Culture is always like that - layer upon layer of quotation after quotation, of ideas that give rise to other ideas, lively exchanges of words that span time and space.
- Rosa Montero

28.12.2005
The worldwide shortage of food that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day of modern warfare.
- Peter Ustinov

29.12.2005
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz

30.12.2005
We believe we are a real country, but the truth is we are little more than a landscape.
- Nicanor Parra

31.12.2005
Here is nothing more useful and splendid than a dictionary as a plaything for children five years and older. Likewise, with a little luck, for good writers up to their hundredth year.
- Gabriel García Márques

03.01.2006
Art is a hammer to beat the world, not a mirror to reflect it.
- Vladimir Majakovskij

04.01.2006
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
- Marie Curie

05.01.2006
The world is not true, but it’s real.
- Fernando Pessoa

06.01.2006
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
- Paul Valéry

09.01.2006
I need poetry to express what cannot be said.
- José Hierro

11.01.2006
I am part of all that I have found on my road.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

12.01.2006
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice.
- Baruch de Spinoza

13.01.2006
Here are doors to the sea that are unlocked with words.
- Rafael Alberti

16.01.2006
Madness is a human condition. Madness is inside us as much as reason. The point is that a so called civil society should accept madness as much as reason.
- Franco Basaglia

17.01.2006
That new inspiration - without which to translate merely means to paraphrase into another language.
- Fernando Pessoa

18.01.2006
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
- Italo Calvino

19.01.2006
When I grow up, I want to be a little boy.
- Joseph Heller

20.01.2006
Culture is what is left in man when he has forgotten everything.
- Edouard Herriot

23.01.2006
The poet is worth what his best poem is worth.
- Fernando Pessoa

24.01.2006
We are what we eat.
- Ludwig Feuerbach

25.01.2006
Everytime I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race.
- H. G. Wells

26.01.2006
Culture is not to read a lot, neither to know a lot - it means to experience a lot.
- Fernando Pessoa

27.01.2006
When we are ill we realise that we do not exist alone but chained to a different domain, from which we are separated by an abyss, which doesn’t know us and by which it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Marcel Proust

30.01.2006
In the concentration camps we used to live from minute to minute and we had to keep reflection to a minimum, for thinking is wearing.
- Häim-Vidal Sephiha

31.01.2006
A book that can’t stand two readings is not worth even one.
- José Luis Martín Descalzo

01.02.2006
Life is a school of probability.
- Walter Bagehot

02.02.2006
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock

03.02.2006
One of the advantages of pleasure over pain is that for pleasure you can say ’stop’.
- Ugo Ojetti

06.02.3006
Our current economy system is a global machine that is destroying the environment and producing millions of losers that nobody knows what to do with.
- Susan George

07.02.2006
The destiny of a people depends on the state of its grammar. There is no great country without propriety of language.
- Fernando Pessoa

08.02.2006
I know nothing of today’s literature. For some time now my contemporary writers have been the Greeks.
- Jorge Luis Borges

09.02.2006
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
- Aldous Huxley

10.02.2006
Why do we kill people who have killed other people? To tell other people that killing is wrong?
- Norman Mailer

13.02.2006
Art is an investment of capital, culture an excuse.
- Ennio Flaiano

14.02.2006
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
- Bernard Baruch

15.02.2006
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you a second chance.
- Orlando Aloysius Battista

16.02.2006
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
- Oscar Wilde

17.02.2006
There will be vice as long as there are men.
- Tacitus

20.02.2006
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie

21.02.2006
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

22.02.2006
Dear Democracy come back home as it’s not too late.
- Ivano Fossati

23.02.2006
Experience is a flame which cannot illuminate without burning.
- Benito Pérez Galdós

24.02.2006
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he’s crooked.
- Groucho Marx

27.02.2006
Not everyone can boast of having a friend.
- Antoine de Saint-Exúpery

28.02.2006
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry D. Thoreau

01.03.2006
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
- Winston Churchill

02.01.2006
To read is to translate, for no two persons’ experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator. In learning to read well, scholarship is less important than instinct.
- W. H. Auden

03.03.2006
True power is in the hands of whoever controls the mass media.
- Licio Gelli

06.03.2006
What we have in common is that we are all different from each other.
- Anon

07.03.2006
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King

08.03.2006
Disarmament conferences amount to fire prevention exercises by pyromaniacs.
- John Osborne

09.03.2006
Without money and lacking time, imagination is a mere fleeting dream that cannot be transformed into an event.
- Charles Baudelaire

10.03.2006
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
- Joey Adams

13.03.2006
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
- San Tommasino d’Aquino

14.03.2006
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

15.03.2006
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question.
- Albert Camus

16.03.2006
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
- Oscar Wilde

17.03.2006
Of all things that are certain, the most certain is doubt.
- Bertolt Brecht

20.03.2006
One is worth as many people as the languages one knows.
- Carlo V

21.03.2006
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
- Caius Sallustius Crispus

22.03.2006
The cinema, like paintings, shows the invisible.
- Jean Luc-Godard

23.03.2006
Which clones more, genetics or TV?
- Anon

24.03.2006
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
- Rita Mae Brown

27.03.2006
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
- Octavio Paz

29.03.2006
Infidel: in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
- Ambroce Bierce

30.03.2006
When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything.
- Arnold Lobel

31.03.2006
A politician thinks about the coming elections, the statesman about the next generations.
- Otto van Bismarck

03.04.3006
They want a war, but we shall not leave them in peace.
- José Saramago

04.04.2006
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

05.04.2006
If you say yes to everything and everyone it’s as if you don’t exist.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

06.04.2006
Is there any use in living if you don’t have the courage to fight for it?
- Giuseppe Fava

07.04.2006
When a banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that’s where the money is.
- Robespierre

10.04.2006
There is no happiness without freedom and no freedom without courage.
- Pericles

11.04.2006
Upbringing is a way of passing on the shortcomings of parents to their children.
- Armand Carrell

12.04.2006
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
- Mark Twain

13.04.2006
Do you want lots of people coming to your aid? Try and avoid the need for it.
- Alessandro Manzoni

14.04.2006
Words are important if they are few.
- Lalla Romano

17.04.2006
Follow the example of the best, those who give up everything to build a better world.
- Salvador Allende

18.04.2006
Let’s also say that liberty is something rather vague, but there’s no vagueness about its absence.
- Rodrigo Rey Rosa

19.04.2006
I would like the death certificate of every human being to be written in the same language as his birth certificate.
- Bertolt Brecht

20.04.2006
People are subjected so often to opinion polls that now they have no opinion at all.
- Jean Baudrillard

21.04.2006
He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
- Leonardo da Vinci

24.04.2006
There are two types of television: intelligent television which makes people difficult to govern, and the television of imbeciles which makes people easy to govern.
- Jean Guéhenno

25.04.2006
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

26.04.2006
Before thinking about how to educate, one would do well to clarify what results one wishes to obtain.
- Bertrand Russell

27.04.2006
If you have faith in yourself, others will have faith in you, too.
- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

28.04.2006
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
- Albert Camus

01.05.2006
Follow the example of the best, those who give up everything to build a better world.
- Henry Brook Adams

02.05.2006
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
- James Agate

03.05.2006
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James Baldwin

04.05.2006
Politics: a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principle.
- Ambroce Bierce

05.05.2006
One can really forgive a man for being a fool for an hour when there are so many who never stop being fools even for an hour in their entire life.
- Fransisco de Queveda y Villegas

08.05.2006
Language is an aggregate of which each speaker possesses a portion.
- Bernard Dupriez

10.05.2006
Nobody consults a dictionary before speaking.
- Anon

11.05.2006
The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man.
- Jacques Bossuet

12.05.2006
Nothing impoverishes so much as greed.
- Anon

15.05.2006
An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listenin.
- Marlon Brando

16.05.2006
Soccer needs to free itself from chemists and accountants.
- Zdenek Zeman

17.05.2006
Not wanting is the same as having.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

18.05.2006
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- John Churton Collins

19.05.2006
The force of habit is great.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

22.05.2006
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
- Maurice Barrés

23.05.2006
Believe in everything you are told about the world - nothing is too awful to be impossible.
- Honoré de Balzac

24.05.2006
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of.
- Burt Bacharach

25.05.2006
Human history, what with salvation and perdition, is ambiguous. We don’t even know whether we are masters of our destiny.
- Norberto Bobbio

26.05.2006
Experience is a lottery ticket bought after the draw has been made.
- Gabriela Mistral

29.05.2006
Does the end justify the means? Thanks.
- Moggi Anon

30.05.3006
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Cyril Connolly

31.05.2006
The tactful aspect of audacity is knowing to what extent one can go too far.
- Jean Cockteau

01.06.2006
Politics is the entertainment department of industry.
- Frank Zappa

02.06.2006
The art of winning is learned from defeats.
- Simón Bolívar

05.06.2006
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.
- Oscar Wilde

06.06.2006
The future of children is always of today. Tomorrow will be too late.
- Gabriela Mistral

07.06.2006
Perhaps it was as easy to uncover the truth as it was to demonstrate the falsehood.
- Cicero

08.06.2006
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
- Cyril Connolly

09.06.2006
The true value of a human being is determined by his ability to attain liberation from himself.
- Albert Einstein

12.06.2006
One of the greatest pleasures in life is friendship, and one of the pleasures of friendship is to have someone in whom to confide a secret.
- Alessandro Manzoni

13.06.2006
Smile, your teeth are not only made for eating or biting.
- Man Ray

14.06.2006
Novelty is as old as the world.
- Jaques Prévert

15.06.2006
War amounts to shedding blood in the search for peace, while peace is a continuation of combat without shedding blood.
- Anon

16.06.2006
Do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Collette

19.06.2006
Knowledge continues to make progress because we are able to base ourselves on the work of the great minds that have preceded us.
- Margherita Hack

20.06.2006
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx

21.06.2006
The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
- Samuel Butler

23.06.2006
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

26.06.2006
Human beings can be grouped into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are bored to death, and those who are worried to death.
- Winston Churchill

27.06.2006
The one and only truth lies in instinct.
- Anatole France

28.06.2006
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds.
- Charles Baudelaire

29.06.2006
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
- William F. Buckley

30.06.2006
Saying friendship is as if to say perfect understanding, immediate trust and lengthy reminiscing, that is to say trustworthiness.
- Gabriela Mistral

03.07.2006
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
- Charles Bukowski

04.07.2006
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
- Anthony Burgess

05.07.2006
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield

06.07.2006
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill

07.07.2006
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
- Alexander Chase

10.07.2006
Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
- Brock Chisholm

11.07.2006
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
- Roberto Bolano

12.07.2006
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
- Lord Byron

13.07.2006
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Coren

14.07.2006
The function of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.
- David Butler

17.07.2006
A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he’s not alone in the way he feels about himself.
- Kenneth Williams

18.07.2006
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
- Alexander Cockburn

19.07.2006
There are occasions, situations and contexts in which violence, and therefore murder (violence carried to the extreme), naturally becomes concrete, present and a reality.
- Roberto Bolano

20.07.2006
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
- Franklin P. Adams

21.07.2006
A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what’s going on.
- William S. Burroughs

24.07.2006
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
- Brian Aldiss

25.07.2006
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
- Alan Coren

26.07.2006
Faithfulness lives where love is stronger than instinct.
- Paul Carvel

27.07.2006
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
- Dick Cavett

28.07.2006
Science only serves to verify the discoveries of instinct.
- Jean Cockteau

31.07.2006
The killer instinct is, like many other instincts, innate in a human being. Man and death, man and cruelty, man and blood - they all go together. Not a pleasant state of affairs, but that is certainly how things are.
- Roberto Bolano

01.08.2006
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
- Tacitus

04.08.2006
Each moment of ours is never the same and we are never the same from one moment to the next, one period of time to the next.
- Heraclitus

07.08.2006
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
- Winston Churchill

08.08.2006
To repent and then start again from the beginning - that’s what life is.
- Victor Cherbuliez

09.08.2006
The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.
- Robert Christgau

16.08.2006
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

17.08.2006
What makes this a terrible world is that we strive with the same passion in seeking to be happy and in preventing others from being so.
- Antione de Rivarol

21.08.2006
When a person claims to know what happiness is, one can sense that person has lost it.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

22.08.2006
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Jack London

23.08.2006
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell

24.08.2006
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russel Baker

25.08.2006
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambroce Bierce

31.08.2006
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
- Arthur James Balfur

04.09.2006
En ekspert er en person, som har begået alle de fejl, som det er muligt at begå inden for et begrænset område.
- Niels Bohr

05.09.2006
Anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder

06.09.2006
If you live long enough, you’ll see every victory turn into a defeat.
- Simone de Beavouir

07.09.2006
A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.
- Lord Henry Brougham

11.09.2006
The world economy is the most efficient expression of organized crime. The international bodies that control currency, trade, and credit practice international terrorism against poor countries, and against the poor of all countries, with a cold-blooded professionalism that would make the best of the bomber terrorists blush.
- Eduardo Galeano

12.09.2006
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
- Charles Bukowski

15.09.2006
To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.
- Alfred Capus

18.09.2006
History: an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
- Ambroce Bierce

19.09.2006
You are Miss Smith, the daughter of multi-millionaire banker Smith, aren’t you? No? I beg your pardon, for a moment I thought I had fallen in love with you.
- Groucho Marx

19.09.2006
A country without documentary films is like a family without a photo album.
- Patricio Guzman

21.09.2006
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- C.K Chesterson

22.09.2006
Our lives end the day we become silent about things that really matter.
- Martin Luther King

28.09.2006
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
- Dean Acheson

29.09.2006
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
- Oscar Wilde

02.10.2006
Every word has been, at sometime, a neologism.
- Jorge Luis Borges

03.10.2006
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reconsider.
- Mark Twain

06.10.2006
Dream and you will be free in spirit, fight and you will be free in life.
- Che Guevara

09.10.2006
Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
- Groucho Marx

10.10.2006
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
- Otto von Bismarck

12.10.2006
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
- Samuel Butler

16.10.2006
There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.
- Marcus Tulius Cicero

17.10.2006
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns

19.10.2006
Let yourself be guided by the child you were.
- Jose Saramago

23.10.2006
Conscience is a dog that doesn’t bar our way forward, but we can’t stop it from barking.
- Nicholas de Chamfort

01.03.2007
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06.03.2007
The poor go to war to fight and die for the whims, wealth and excesses of others.
- Plutarch

07.03.2007
The political left is an evil that only the presence of the right makes tolerable.
- Massimo D’Alema

08.03.2007
The man who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his mother tongue.
- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

22.03.2007
Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn’t got in the way.
- Lec Stanislaw Jerzy

23.03.2007
Increase in wisdom can be measured accurately by the corresponding decrease in anger.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

30.03.2007
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

02.04.2007
Men are always sincere. They just change from one kind of sincerity to another, that’s all.
- Tristan Bernard

27.04.2007
That which makes men sociable is their inability to bear solitude.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

27.04.2007
Lawyer: an accomplice who does not run any risk.
- Seneca

23.05.2007
I need to be needed.
- Anon

26.05.2007
Life can be wonderful if it doesn’t frighten you.
- Charlie Chaplin

16.06.2007
The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
- Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

20.06.2007
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

22.06.2007
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anaïs Nin

23.06.2007
Be frank and explicit with your lawyer… It will then be his job to make everything confused.
- Anon

27.06.2007
Life’s best is not to be sought, but found.
- Anon

27.06.2007
I am optimistic for the future of pessimism.
- Jean Rostand

29.06.2007
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Orison Swett Marden

29.06.2007
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
- Quentin Crisp

02.07.2007
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow

03.07.2007
Necessity has no law.
- Oliver Cromwell

04.07.2007
No woman can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
- Thoma Dewar

05.07.2007
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller

06.07.2007
I think, therefore I exist.
- René Descartes

11.07.2007
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
- Norman Douglas

12.07.2007
Marriage is two people agreeing to tell the same lie.
- Karen Durbin

13.07.2007
The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.
- René Descartes

17.07.2007
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
- Mark Twain

18.07.2007
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
- Mark Twain

18.07.2007
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman

19.07.2007
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban