As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955 via QOTD |
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Michel de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592 via QOTD |
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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George Washington, 1732 - 1799 via QOTD |
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work and amusements than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
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Agnes Repplier, 1855 - 1950 via QOTD |
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose.
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Thomas Edison, 1847 - 1931 via QOTD |
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Bertolt Brecht, 1898 - 1956 via QOTD |
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791 via QOTD |
