An amazing tool : Google books ngram viewer

As sample, what's the trends for the words bear and cool ?

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love :
first to their advantage,
then to their disadvantage.
   (Albert Camus) #quote

Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses,
and some don't turn up at all.
   (Sam Ewing) #quote

Not being heard is no reason for silence.
  (Victor Hugo) #quote

Que les puces d'un millier de chiens galeux infestent les fesses de celui qui te gâcherait une seule seconde de ton année et que les bras de cet abruti deviennent trop courts pour qu'il puisse se les gratter.
 (carte de vœux du nouvel an chinois) #quote

Some people are like clouds. When they leave, it’s a beautiful day.
   (Unknown) #quote

A friend to all is a friend to none.
   (Aristote) #quote

Les paroles s'envolent, les aigris restent.
   (Francis Blanche)  #quote

Appuyez vous sur les principes, ils finiront bien par céder.
  (Oscar Wilde) #quote

Aimer savoir est humain, savoir aimer est divin.
   (Joseph ROUX) #quote

A l'occasion de la coupe du monde de rugby 2011, Orangina et son ours sérial plaqueur

En politique, il faut donner ce qu'on n'a pas,
et promettre ce qu'on ne peut pas donner.
   (Louis XI) #quote

Amor patitur moras.

L'amour est patient.

Vu samedi soir - Des dialogues parfois un peu crus, mais une pièce débridée !

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

  (Mark Twain) #quote

Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.

   (French Proverb) #quote

Dance like nobody's watching;
love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening;
live like it's heaven on earth. 
  (Mark Twain) #quote

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
   (Tom Stoppard) #quote

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. 
    (Unknown)  #quote

Ad astra per aspera

(To the stars through adversity)

**

Ad augusta per angusta

(To high places by narrow roads)

If kisses were leaves I'd send you a forest!

  (Unknown) #quote

I've learned.... That everyone wants
to live on top of the mountain,
but all the happiness and growth
occurs while you're climbing it.
   (Andy Rooney)  #quote

Extrait du post DSI palefrenier qui établit une analogie entre un règlement d’écurie et une DSI moderne, autour de 4 préceptes :

    Le temps nécessaire pour chaque chose.
    Chaque chose en son temps.
    Une place pour chaque chose
    Chaque chose à sa place.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
  (Eleanor Roosevelt) #quote

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
  (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) #quote

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.

   (Jameson Frank) #quote

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
   (David Thoreau) #quote

Quand les esturgeons connaissent le prix du caviar ils deviennent prétentieux.

   (In le film "Camping 2") #quote

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
   (Darryl Royal)  #quote

Il est admirable pour un homme d'emmener son fils à la pêche,
mais il existe une place particulière au paradis pour le père qui emmène sa fille faire les boutiques.
(John SINOR, author and newspaper columnist who focused on what he termed "everyday problems of everyday people) #quote

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
    (Mario Fernandez ) #quote

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,

so love the people who treat you right

and forget the ones that don’t

and believe that everything happens for a reason.

If you get a change, take it.

If it changes your life, let it.

Nobody said that it’d be easy,

they just promised it would be worth it. 

  (Anonymous) #quote

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience

 and that is not learning from experience.

    (Archibald MacLeish) #quote

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
   (Gore Vidal #quote)

Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
   (Unknown) #quote

Après l'Illusion Conjugale , une excellente et hilarante autopsie au scalpel de la vie à deux dans "Les conjoints"

Buy the best and you only cry once.
  (English proverb) #quote


When you buy something expensive, you cry once;
when you buy something cheap, you cry everyday.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
   (Martin Luther King) #quote

Life is not about how fast you run,

or how high you climb,

but how well you bounce.

   (Unknown) #quote

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
  (Peter Marshall) #quote

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits.  Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
  (Emerson)  #quote

Chez beaucoup d'hommes, la parole précède la pensée.
Ils savent seulement ce qu'ils pensent après avoir entendu ce qu'ils disent.
    (Gustave Le Bon) #quote

Mais qu'est-ce que je vais devenir ? Je suis ministre, je ne sais rien faire !

   (In La Folie des grandeurs, G.Oury) #quote

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
    (Wilson Mizner) #quote

Ce que j'ai fait, je te jure, aucune bête ne l'aurait fait.

(Henri Guillaumet à son ami Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

après 5 jours et 4 nuits de marche dans les Andes) #quote

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
   (Karl Marx)   #quote

If you keep on doing what you've always done,
you'll keep on getting what you've always got.
   (Anthony Robbins) #quote

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all :)
  (Unknown) #quote

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. 

  (Winston Churchill)  #quote

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm
will go further than a great idea
that inspires no one.
   (Mary Kay Ash)#quote

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. 
  (Winston Churchill) #quote

Entre le sarcasme et l'ironie il y a la même distance

 qu'entre un rot et un soupir.

    (Hugo Pratt - In Corto Maltese) #quote