Some are made modest by great praise others insolent.
Friedrich NietzscheFamous adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose BierceIt is false to say that you are a vicious man Zoilus, you are not a vicious man you are vice itself
Marcus AureliusAll the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas AquinasSomeone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
Paul McCartneyI don't know what to say. I'm happy to win MVP in Philadelphia. The booing was just hurtful. But it's not going to ruin this day for me.
Kobe BryantThe idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Richard DawkinsThere are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette DavisThe one who adapts his policy to the times prospers and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin