Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
We all want what can not be done, we are fanatical admirers of the forbidden
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Well done is better than well said.”
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,
Everything is done in the world is done by hope.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.
All I've done all my life is disobey.
All I've done all my life is disobey.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen.
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.