Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.
Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.[Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Life is nothing without friendship.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.
By doubting we come at truth.
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.
Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
Blood is a very special juice.
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
