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