Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Ernest Haskins

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.

松原泰道

子ども叱るな、来た道じゃ。
年寄り叱るな、行く道じゃ。

Wilson Mizner

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

__________

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Ira Glass

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents as I worried mine. You will question your own choices. You will question your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all. The thing I want to say is: That is totally okay. That is totally normal. If that happens, you’re doing it right.

Jane Lynch

Let life surprise you. Don’t have a plan. Plans are for wusses. If my life went according to my plan, I would never ever have the life I have today. You are obviously good planners, or you wouldn’t be here. Stop it! Stop it now! Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

Democritus

• Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
• If you suffer injustice, console yourself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
• Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
• By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
• Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
• Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
• Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
• I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
• It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
• It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Наталья Макарова

Все время оглядываться скучно. Азарт и волнение – в завтрашнем дне.

Zhang Yimou

No matter what wars or disasters happen in history, what surrounds these times is life, love, salvation and humanity. I hope those things are felt in this story. The human side of the story was more important to me than the background of the Nanjing massacre. Human nature, love and sacrifice -- these are the things that are truly eternal. For me, the event is the historical background of the film. But the enduring question of the story is how the human spirit is expressed in wartime.

Steve Geller

Most of the quotes were collected because I like the messages or lessons they had in them. They each inspired me in some way. I placed the first quote in that position for a reason. If you read the first entry and understand the meaning behind it, you will understand why I collected the quotes. Not everyone will agree with every quote I collected. But the first entry will speak for me. My hope is that other people can find the same lessons and wisdom that I did, and maybe even ones I have not seen. I hope they will be meaningful to others.

Sir Ernest Cassel

When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.

杉山愛

遊戯三昧

Jill Pendley

To live in this single moment, this lightest breath, this softest touch, to be captured by this smallest, this briefest space of time, to be fully present, alive, consumed in this instant alone, this is truly living.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

田中宇

隠れ多極主義者の常套策は、米国の覇権を恒久的に維持したい軍産複合体やイスラエルに近づき「テロ戦争」に代表される冷戦型の「米国中心の同盟体と、敵国との恒久的な対立状態」を作り出す戦略を手がけ、それを稚拙かつ過剰にやって失敗させ、逆に米国の敵国や非米的な諸大国（ＢＲＩＣ）を強化し、世界を多極化させることだ。

大平正芳

• 良賈深蔵如虚
• 水深川清
• 絶景在険峰
• 丹心照万古
• 尽凡心開天地
• 去華就実
• 在素知贅 (simple living and high thinking)
• 任怨分謗 (任怨: 何か思い切った新しい仕事をやる時には、きまってだれかの怨みをかう。だが、そうした怨をいちいち気にしていたのでは、とても新規事業はやりとげられない。敢えてその怨を受けよ。中傷の火の粉を恐れるな; 分謗: いったん志をともにした以上は、一心同体となってその怨を分けて受ける気概がなければならない)

Daniel Kahneman

Many people will admit that they made a mistake. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

Antonin Scalia

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
_____

But it is blindingly clear that judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to decide what is moral.

Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.