Other World Legends

• "Very few of us are what we seem." Agatha Christie
• Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley
• Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
• "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and  so regretfully upon the closed
  door that we do not see the one which  has opened for us." Alexander Graham Bell
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope
• "Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing? Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together; at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas
• "All for one and one for all." Alexandre Dumas
• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Alfred Hitchcock
• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson
• We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are. Anais Nin
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
• """To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe.""  Anatole France
• """Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."" " Anna Freud
• "The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." Anonymous
• "Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live  without." Anonymous
• "A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks  out" Anonymous
• "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the  doorbell." Anonymous
• "Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior  work." Anonymous
• "There is safety in numbers." Anonymous
• "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but  when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de St Exupery
• "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." Benjamin Franklin
• “In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” Benjamin Franklin
• "Most fools think they are only ignorant." Benjamin Franklin
• "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." Benjamin Franklin
• "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." Benjamin Disraeli
• "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own." Benjamin Disraeli
• "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli
• "Little things affect little minds." Benjamin Disraeli
• "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli
• "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli
• Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. Bill Gates
• The customer is never wrong. Cesar Ritz
• Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence. Charles de Gaulle
• Graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles de Gaulle
• "There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you   dare not start. Charles
  Baudelaire
• "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
• "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero
• "There are people who have money and people who are rich." Coco Chanel
• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Conficius
• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Conficius
• "Respect yourself and others will respect you." Conficius
• "The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." Conficius
• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Dalai Lama
• "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors." E.M.Cioran
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola
• Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemmingway
• There is no better friend than a book. Ernest Hemmingway
• """In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.""" Euripedes
• "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." Euripedes
• Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away. F. de la Rochefoucauld
• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. F.W. Robertson
• If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror. Francois Rabelais
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche
• What doesn't kill you will make you stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche
• When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche
• "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G.K. Chesterton
• "A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." G.K. Chesterton
• We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it  within themselves. Galileo
  Gallilei
• "When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." Gracie Allen
• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously. Henry Kissinger
• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger
• "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." Henry Ford
• """Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.""" Henry Ford
• "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." Henry Ford
• "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Honore de Balzac
• "It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action." Honore de BalzacSeize
• the day, put no trust in tomorrow. Horace
• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
• "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman
• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
• Formula for success : rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty
• Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children J. Paul Getty
• If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man. J. Paul Getty
• Enjoy when you can and endure when you must. J.W. van Goethe
• Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. J.W. van Goethe
• A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. J.W. van Goethe
• Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. J.W. van Goethe
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do. J.W. van Goethe
• "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." Jacques Bossuet
• "I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" Jean Cocteau
• "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de St Exupery
• Hell is other people.""" Jean-Paul Sartre
• "Hell is other people." Jean-Paul Sartre
• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy
• When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two  characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity. John F. Kennedy
• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. John F. Kennedy
• Liberty without learning is always in peril;  learning without liberty is  always in vain. John F. Kennedy
• Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. John Lennon
• Education : the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent  by the incompetent John Maynard Keynes
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
• It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. John Saxe
• "It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." John Saxe
• "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
• May you live every day of your life.""" Jonathan Swift
• "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
• "May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift
• Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another. Leo Tolstoy
• "Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another." Leo Tolstoy
• In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Life is a play.  It's not its length but its performance that counts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• "Life is a play.  It's not its length but its performance that counts." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
• "The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." Malcolm Forbes
• The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
• If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher
• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher
• I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher
• "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." Margaret Thatcher
• "It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake." Margaret Thatcher
• "I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." Margaret Thatcher
• "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." Marie Curie
• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain
• Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain
• "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain
• "Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint." Mark Twain
• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." Mark Twain
• "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." Marlene Dietrich
• In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King
• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." Miguel de Cervantes
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere
• "Ability is nothing without opportunity." Napoleon Bonaparte
• "Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." Napoleon Bonaparte
• "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte
• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli
• "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." Orlando A; Battisa
• "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck
• Burdens become light when cheerfully borne. Ovid
• The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. Pablio Picasso
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
• "The only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant! Robert Louis Stevenson
• Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!" Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is though necessary." Robert Louis Stevenson
• Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. Rudyard Kipling
• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rudyard Kipling
• Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling
• He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling
• If it can't be cured it must be endured. Salman Rushdie
• "The only difference between me and  a madman is that I'm not mad." Salvador Dali
• "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali
• Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Samuel Johnson
• Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson
• When making your choices in life, do not forget to live. Samuel Johnson
• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson
• "Men are more moral than they Sigmund Freud
• "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." Sir Francis Bacon
• "Knowledge is power." Sir Francis Bacon
• "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Sir Francis Bacon
• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. Sir Walter Scott
• "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." Sir Walter Scott
• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. Somerset Maugham
• It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. Somerset Maugham
• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking
• Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it. Stephen Hawking
• I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than by an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep. Talleyrand
• All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. Tennessee Williams
• The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
• A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. Thomas Brackett Reed
• "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
• In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand ike a rock. Thomas Jefferson
• To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. Thomas Moore
• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
• Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo
• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the  servant. Victor Hugo
• Conscience is a man's compass. Vinvent Van Gogh
• The progress of rivers to the ocean is not as rapid as that of man to error. Voltaire
• Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
• The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks. Voltaire
• Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire
• The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire
• Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. Voltaire
• Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
• "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction."  William Faulkner
• All the world over I will back the masses against the classes. William Gladstone
• Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit. William Penn
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn
• A good laugh is sunshine in a house. William Thackery
• "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." William Thackery
• "I'm not afraid to die.  I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen