Коллекция умных мыслей

1.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Laurence Sterne

2.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell

3.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

4.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

5.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas Macarthur

6.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

7.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton

8.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser

9.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving that makes it fat-.
Emily Dickinson

10.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca

11.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

12.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

13.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than molder piecemeal on the rock!
Lord Byron

14.

Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve

15.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles

16.

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

18.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

I never worry about action, only inaction.
Sir Winston Churchill

20.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller