phrases of famous people

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FAMOUS PHRASES

"Only the face is shocking. From the neck down, could walk unaided."
Nelson Rodrigues

"All of our statesmen capacity fades into the intrigue, the cunning, in Kabbalah, in revenge, envy, indulgence in abuse in the saving of appearances, the carelessness of the future."
Rui Barbosa

"Owning is lost. Feel free to keep owning it, because it is one thing to extract its essence."
Fernando Pessoa

"Never lose faith in humanity, because it is like an ocean. Just because there are a few drops of dirty water in it, does not mean that it is dirty at all."
Gandhi

"Two things fill the soul of increasing admiration and awe, the more intense and often deals with the thought of them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
Immanuel Kant

Lions have a great strength, but that they would be useless if nature had not given them eyes. [Montesquieu]


What drives the boat is not the billowing sail, but the wind is not seen. [Plato]


Funny, they say I'm lucky. Only I know that the more I prepare, the luckier I got. [Anthony Robbins]


The initiative is the first step to failure. [Homer Simpson]


This reshuffle is a basket of crabs. Some crabs coming in, others leaving. [Brizola]


It is the problem of education that underlies the great secret of the betterment of mankind. [Immanuel Kant]


What good is a man to gain the world loses his soul? [Blaise Pascal]


Do not be afraid of perfection. You'll never reach it. [Salvador Dali]


All women know that jealous are the first to forgive. [Fedor Dostoyevsky]


Information technology and business are becoming inevitable one. I do not think anyone can talk about one without talking about the other. [Bill Gates]


Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and Computers are from hell. [Anonymous]


These elections are so catastrophic that, looking at the list of candidates, the Devil made the sign of the cross. [Creator, O]


If we can cut beasts simply because they can not prevent us and because we are giving away the right to life, then it is logical to cut imbeciles, criminals, enemies or capitalists for the same reasons. [C. S. Lewis]


The acquisition of a loyal and constant friend is not difficult, when we look at animal breed dogs. [Marques de Marica]


Commercially, the jazz are dead as a doornail. We do not do more bop. [Nat King Cole]


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 - A woman worries about the future until finding a husband, a man begins to worry about the future when he meets a woman. (Author anonymous)

  - People have something in common. Are all different. (Sent by Oliver)

  - Married life is not so bad, after marrying, you can eat the things your wife likes it. (Frank Hubbard)

  - Not worthy of tasting the honey, one that moves away from the hive afraid of bee stings (W. Shakespeare - posted by Luana)

  - Only the drunks can actually see that the Earth is rotating. (Sent by Oliver)

  - Brazil is a country in a state of calamity ... Disaster policy. (Fogovivo)

  - Ask not what your country can do for you. He can answer. (Justine Holy Spirit)

  - I do not remember that he died. Just remember that it was nothing serious. (Carlos Leon)

  - We only say yes or no on the marriage and still sometimes misses. (Franco)

  - Ninety percent of what I write is invention. Only ten percent is a lie. (Manoel de Barros)

  - Show me a good loser I'll show you an idiot. (Leo Durocher)

  - It's better to be pessimistic than optimistic. The pessimist is happy when it hit and when it errs. (Millor Fernandes)

  - Experience is the name we give to our own mistakes. (Oscar Wilde)

  - If a person fool you she deserves a spanking, if that same person again fool who deserves the beating you are. (Chinese proverb)

  - Youth is not a time of life, is a state of mind. (Chinese proverb)




  - It's much easier to recognize error than to find truth. The error is on the surface and therefore it is easy to eradicate it. The truth lies at the bottom and is not quanquer one who can reach her. (Goethe)

  - Communism is like prohibition, a good idea, just does not work. (Will Rogers)

  - Happiness is not a station to which we will come, but a way to travel. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)

  - More important than inner beauty is the wealth abroad. (Author unknown)

  - Drink moderately, honorably and pay out amicably. (Author anonymous)

  - No school better than life, no better teacher than the error, no students worse than me! (Sent by Ricardo Eduardo)

  - Harsh words and arguments poor never solved anything. (Chinese proverb)

  - Personally I know nothing about sex. I've always been a married woman. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)

  - The only thing for planning is that things never happen as was planned. (Costa)

  - Who likes hard cock queer; woman likes is money. (Neil Ferreira)

  - The Brazilian justice system is very effective in two phases: time to condemn the poor and the rich when acquitted. (Fogovivo)

  - If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. (Anton Chekov)

  - The likelihood that you enter the supermarket to buy bread and go out with him is just one in three billion. (Erma Bombeck)

  - Hypothesis is one thing that is not, but we pretend it's, to see how it would if it were. (Author anonymous)

  - When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. (Helen Rowland)

  - Why repeat the old mistakes when there are so many new mistakes to make? (Sent by Oliver)

  - The bad information is more desperate than the lack of information. (Charles C. Colton)

  - There are two tragedies in life. One is to do what your heart desires. The other is doing. (Bernard Shaw)

  - Pessimistic is a guy who looks both ways before crossing the street one-way street. (Laurence J. Peter)

  - If we close the door to all errors, truth will out. (Rabindranath Tagore)

  - The biggest flaw of democracy is that only the party that is not in government know how to rule. (Author unknown)

  - Home of "tolerance" is a place where everything is tolerated ... Less than a lack of money. (Fogovivo)

  - If you think education is expensive, have the courage to try ignorance. (Derek Bok)

  - The dog is the only man's best friend because they know the money. (Author anonymous)

  - Call me a drunk, because I will deny until the last dose. (Count of Bicardin)

  - Bad company is like a fish market, you end up getting used to the smell. (Chinese proverb)

  - He who obtains a victory over other men is strong, but one who obtains a victory over himself is all powerful. (Lao Tzu)

  - The woman who has no luck with men, does not know how lucky you are. (Sent by Carla)

  - Just because you go to dinner with someone, does not mean it has to be dessert. (Dora Bria)

  - The problem of marriage are the differences in expectations: the woman believes the man will change after marriage, while men think that women will not change after marriage. (Author unknown)

  - The memory of happiness is not happiness. The memory of pain is pain still (Lord Byron)

  - The lie is a truth that you forgot to happen. (Mario Quintana)

  - The law is like a fence, is strong when we pass beneath, is weak when we go over. (Colonel Chico Heraclitus)

  - In Brazil, justice is singular. And corruption is plural. (Fogovivo)

  - I can not believe a country that bought the Acre. (Eugene Mohallen)

  - A diplomat is a person whose favorite color is rainbow. (Millor Fernandes)

  - All men are born free and equal, if then decide to get married, it's their fault. (Sophie Loeb)

  - Do not know your ex-husband, but now I begin to sympathize with him. (L. A. Dias da Silva)






  - The child says what he does, the old man says what he did and the idiot says it will do. (Baron Itararé)

  - The government has become too big for the small problems and too small for big problems. (Daniel Dell)

  - When I was younger I thought money was the most important thing in the world, today I'm sure. (Oscar Wilde)

  - Friendship is like coffee, never once cool back the original flavor, even hot. (Kant)

  - A committee consisting of a meeting of important people, alone, can do nothing, but that together decide that nothing can be done. (Fred Allen)

  - I believe in God, all others must provide data and facts. (Edward Deming)

  - Men are like wine: age sours the bad and the good clears. (Cicero)

  - The imagination is what made the great geniuses who created the set up and see things that nobody had ever imagined seeing. (William Mainieri)

  - Make debt is like building a submarine, it can even float, but was made to sink. (Sent by Marino)

  - Teenagers often confuse corner fuck fairy tale. (Ernani da Silva)

  - Regret what we have is to waste what we have. (Chinese proverb)

  - The virtue of humanity is to love men, to prudence, to meet them. (Confucius)

  - Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (St. Francis of Assisi)

  - In middle age, emotions become symptoms. (Irvin S. Cobb)

  - The tears do not mean weakness, but courage of a feeling. (Sent by Carla)

  - I joined an association of married anonymous. When I do want to get married, they send me a woman in a bathrobe and curlers in her hair, so I burn the toast. (Dick Martin)

  - Does not matter if the drug is or is not flour, the healing that is bull. (Luis Fernando Verissimo)

  - Play is a fundamental condition to be serious. (Archimedes)

  - What we know is a drop, which is ignorant of an ocean. (Sent by Carla)

  - Greater than the sexual impulse is the impulse to move in the other's text. (Claudius Ceccon)

  - Master is not one who always teaches but who suddenly learns. (Guimarães Rosa)

  - You know the honeymoon is over when you call home to say they arrive late and answering machine responds that the dinner is in the microwave. (Author anonymous)

  - When people think they know all the answers, life comes and changes all the questions. (Author unknown)

  - Do you study each other for three weeks, love one another for three months, fighting over three years and tolerate the situation for thirty years. (Andrew of Missan)

  - Because I smoke at my age, if I have something to hold on, I fall. (George Burns)

  - Who buys what he does not need, sell what you need. (Arab proverb)

  - Who wants to pick roses, should bear the thorns. (Chinese proverb)

  - Every man fight with more bravery for his interests than for his rights. (Napoleon)

  - The neurotic builds a castle in the air. The psychotic lives in it and the psychiatrist collects the rent. (Jerome Lawrence)

  - If you were bracing cachaça, the Brazilian would be a giant. (Fogovivo)

  - A feijoada is only truly complete when you have an ambulance on call. (Stanislaw Ponte Preta)

  - "A vegetarian diet is ideal for the beauty of the body," the veggies. But she does not seem worth much to elephants. (Punch Magazine, London)

  - Never tell a lie that can not prove. (Millor Fernandes)

  - You know what it means to come home at night and find a woman who give love, affection and tenderness? It means you entered the wrong house, that's all! (Author unknown)

  - Be careful when lending money to friends. You can lose both. (S. Brown)

  - The man does everything to hear the clink of coins, the cracking of palms and wailing women. (Pun)

  - The success is to achieve what you want: happiness, in desiring what is achieved. (Author anonymous)

  - Being afraid does not help to live. (Ivo Pitanguy)

  - Who does not mind, you worry. (Otto Lara Resende)

  - Running a company is not seeing it as it is ... but as it is. (John Teets)

  - And if not us, who go wrong with another. (Stefan Wagner)

  - In life everything is relative; one hair on her head is low, and the soup is too. (Sent by Adelson Luiz)

  - The best reformers the world are the ones who began to retire. (Bernard Shaw)

  - Many of us are spending money they did not get where to buy things we do not need, to impress people they dislike. (S. Brown)

  - The dying process begins the moment you're born, but is accelerated considerably during big dinners. (Carol Matthau)

  - If you look like your passport photo, no doubt need to travel more. (Sir Angus Wilson)