Aphorisms: The Best Collection of Wise Words and Sayings.

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
- Walt Disney

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Strong minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Weak minds discuss people.
• Socrates

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
~ T.S. Eliot

❝ Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ❞
~ James Joyce

“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
- Lord Byron

“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Doris Lessing

Странная ты, живешь рядом с кладбищем, а к чаю ничего нет.

Everybody said, ‘Follow your heart.’ I did, it got broken.
Agatha Christie

“Every word has consequences. Every silence too.”
— Jean Paul Sartre

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

‘Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.’

— Plato

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."
-- Horace Walpole

“Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that then you’ve got it made.”
-Groucho Marx

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.“
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“And what is better than wisdom? Woman.
And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

-- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

''The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.''

~ Marcus Aurelius

“Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.”
By William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
- Roy T. Bennett

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
~Voltaire

′′ If I could give you one thing in life, I'd love to give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes."
- Frida Kahlo

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
By Oscar Wilde, THE CRITIC AS ARTIST

"Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious."
Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George Orwell, 1984

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
-Marie Curie

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
--- Samuel Beckett

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
— James Bryce

“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
― Ella Fitzgerald

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”
― Lord Byron

‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ -
Oscar Wilde,

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
~ P.G. Wodehouse

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
James Baldwin

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
― Plato

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
— Cicero

"All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire."
• Edgar Allan Poe

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ~Charles Schultz.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
~Oscar Wilde

"Sometimes you have to talk so that the silence doesn't say everything."
~ Herta Müller

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again —”
— Georgia O’Keeffe

Рыбалка в старости - это когда пьёшь водку возле аквариума.

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
— Leonard Cohen

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Kurt Vonnegut

Закончив приставания извинениями, можно обидеть любую женщину.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
– Mark Twain

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Edgar Allan Poe

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”
~Stephen King

“That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
—Henry David Thoreau

''To love oneself is the beginning of a lifetime romance.''
–Oscar Wilde

“Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
John Barrymore

'Nothing is necessary for a young man as much as the company of an intelligent woman.'
— Leo Tolstoy

« We build too many walls and not enough bridges. »

Isaac Newton

We never really grow up, we just learn to act in public.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
— Horace Walpole

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

Don't tell people to respect their elders. Be an elder worth respecting.

“Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary unless your friends are there to see it.”
- Barney Stinson

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstances.
~Hunter S. Thompson

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

- Rudyard Kipling

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
— Seneca

"If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.”
-- Schopenhauer

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

~ Charles Baudelaire

When I was younger I could see into the future. Now, I'm getting all my premonitions as flashbacks.

-- Steven Wright

Ingratitude is a special kind of theft.
-A.Y.Bratus

The other day, I accidentally spilled spot remover on my dog. Now, he's not there anymore...

--Steven Wright

"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too."
— Jean Paul Sartre

" Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words."
• Pythagoras

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
—Virginia Woolf

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
– Voltaire

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
~Marcus Aurelius

To a great mind, nothing is little.
• Sherlock Holmes

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity.For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops.The same is true of laugh."
~ Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot