Seeing is believing

Education kills poetry - T.S. Eliot, a poet, who wrote (copied): Toi, hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère

Thou hast seen nothing yet - M. Cervantes (in English translation)

You ain't seen nothing yet - the above in Black English Vernacular

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher and inventor of the jet engine but a poor dialectologist, still.


Too much of something is bad enough

We are not amused - H.M. Queen Victoria, Empress of India

Less is more - Mies Van der Rohe, a lover of level surfaces

Christ, no man, is King - Oliver Cromwell

The whole world is crazy except me and thee, and even thee is a little queer! - Anonymous English gentleman to his wife


The meaning of Life

He may be subtle, but never malicious - Albert Einstein on God, an atheist himself

Tibi or not to be ( in a Gallic accent) - Alex. Dumas to one of his candidate girlfriends

To be or not to be - Prince Hamlet, basically to the audience

If heaven can't wait, why then can I ? - The Heart Throbs (antique Indie band)

Fuck your dreams, this is heaven - Obscene title of a less than obscene film

We're all cynics and romantics, sometimes simultaneously - NIck Hornby, after Arsenal was beaten by PAOK


The secrets of success

If a girl does not like dancing and swimming, she will never be able to make love - Clea, Larry Durrell's heroine of the homonymous book, who apparently fancied all the three

We, who lived with honest dreams/ defend the bad against the worse - C.D.Lewis on war

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing - One of Oscar Wilde's contrastive dicta

Courage equal to desire - W.B. Yeats about the man who took his girl from him

A rush and a push and the land is ours - The Smiths

Confusion to your enemies! - Carl Sagan as a novelist

Try not. There is no try. Do. Or do not - sex according to master Yoda, almost 900 years old


Silence alone is great; all else is weakness - Alfred DeVigny


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