42 quotes found
“When you do something, you miss something else! If you dont want to miss anything, you have to do everything!”
“For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!”
“Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!”
“Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities exce...”
“We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!”
“Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!”
“Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!”
“I think this man is a bit crazy, but arent we all a little crazy anyway?”
“What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is f...”
“How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagles egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?”
“What you do when nobody is there is your true you!”
“For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!”
“When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next Get it!”
“Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acro...”
“We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing a...”
“Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there...”
“If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, dont you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find...”
“In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!”
“Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!”
“There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!”