Thoughts of legends 7

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead. — Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
What experience and history teach is this: That people and governments have never learned anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
El amor es fuego, pero con el no se cuece el puchero. (Love is a furnace, but it will not cook the stew.) — Spanish proverb
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. — Charles Louis de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Think much, speak little, and write less. — Italian proverb
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. — Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Ah, les bons vieux temps ou nous etions si malheureux! (Ah, the good old times when we were so unhappy!) — French saying
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. — Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. — R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
Prophecy is the wit of a fool. — Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action. — Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. — Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. — Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. — Wendell Willkie (1892-1944)
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Scarlet Letter
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)