Quotes to inspire and reflect

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.

That’s the way with these directors, they’re always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Gentlemen, include me out.

There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

I … chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

The first blow is half the battle.

This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,

The very pink of perfection.

Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Measures not men, have always been my mark.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,

And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The man recovered of the bite,

The doctor found, when she was dead,—

Man wants but little here below,

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,

How wide the limits stand

A man he was to all the country dear,

And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,

Mehr Licht!

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

When we take people, thou wouldst say, merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast.

None but the lonely heart

If I love you, what does that matter to you!

Über allen Gipfeln

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn?

Die Wahlverwandtschaften.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

In art the best is good enough.

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.

Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.

Meine Ruh’ ist hin,

All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

Just trust yourself and you’ll learn the art of living.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself!

Man will err while yet he strives.

GEORGES FRANJU : Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?