There Will Be Winter, There Will Be Cold, There Will Be Snowstorms, But Then There Will Be Spring.. Again..”
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine.
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
Winter solitude in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Music and love are the wings of the soul.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Hope Springs Exulting on Triumphant Wing.
When you stop growing you start dying.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
“If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)
Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can.
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
Truth comes out in wine.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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.
The song is everything. The rhythmic wing has eternal blood, And I know that one day I shall be dumb: — Nothing more.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
I do not wish to become a god or a hero. I only wish to become a tree, growing for centuries without harming anyone.
I feel my heart melting In the mildness like candles: My veins are slow oil And not wine, And I feel my life fleeing Hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Truth comes out in wine.
He who has seem everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flash.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.
Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.
Black child, I see your wings sprouting.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Their heart grew cold / they let their wings down
Love shook my heart, like the wind on the mountain rushing over the oak trees.
Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.
If you don’t know to which port you are sailing, no wind will be favorable.
there are days ahead, Days to be fulfilled With just a soft, soft wind Filling the space of dreams.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
“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.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.