A classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read. Mark Twain, an American author....
I recommend you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a British statesman and man-of-letters....
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. St Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), a philosopher and theologian...
Many a man falls as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher....
As I was reading Mikhail Romm‘s book on directing in cinema, I came across a chapter on shots and framing, in which Romm illustrates different types of shots through the well-known paintings. I ...
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. Jonathan Swift, an English satyrist...
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. H. L. Mencken, an American writer...
I really like it when Easter falls on the same day across the Christian denominations. While I am planning to share a few memories later today, I first and foremost share the old postcards from my fam...
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Henry Louis Mencken, an American writer and prose stylist, the “Sage of Baltimore”....
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Edward John Phelps, an American lawyer and diplomat...