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