260 quotes found
“If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.”
“There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.”
“I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.”
“I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.”
“There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.”
“Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!”
“The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.”
“Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.”
“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.”
“Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.”
“Not all speed is movement.”
“Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.”
“Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.”
“Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”
“Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.”
“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
“Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.”
“Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.”
“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
“When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.”
