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| Den stora mästaren som skapade världen utgav sitt arbete anonymt | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Den store mästare som skapade världen har gett ut sitt verk anonymt. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Destruktionen av den här planeten skulle inte ha någon betydelse på en kosmisk skala. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| Det som verkligen intresserar mig är om Gud hade något val när han skapade världen. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Det är världen som lär oss. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Du må låta världen ordnas upp av sig själv, för du kan inte ordna upp den | Dansk Ordtak |
| Först ignorerar de dig. Sedan skrattar de åt dig. Sedan krigar de mot dig. Sedan vinner du. | Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) |
| Himmlen är sig lik, Oavsett var i världen du är | Norsk Ordtak |
| Ibland tror jag att hela denna värld är en enda stor fängelsegård där några av oss är fångar och resten fångvaktare. | Bob Dylan (1941-) |
| När världen snurrar, så snurrar vi med. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Som kvinna är jag utan land. Som kvinna är hela världen mitt land. | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| Stoppa världen, jag vill kliva av. | Anthony Newley (1931-) |
| Vi är vad vi tänker. Allt vi är uppstår med våra tankar. Med våra tankar skapar vi världen. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Världen blir äldre, och med tiden allt mer ondskefull. | Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) |
| Världen kanske behöver sova en stund. Den har så blodsprängda ögon. | Artur Lundkvist (1906-1991) |
| Världen är en vacker bok, men värdelös för den som inte kan läsa. | Carlo Goldini |
| Världen är inte farlig på grund av de som gör skada, utan på grund av de som ser det utan att ingripa. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Världen är skapad av dumbommar för att de kloka ska kunna leva i den. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Världen är som man tar den | Dansk Ordtak |
| världen är ännu ung | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Åh du stora, stora värld, sa mannen, som hade rest en mil. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Även om världen inte duger till något annat är den ändå intressant att betrakta. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Verden er et smukt sted - og værd at kæmpe for. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world. | Adriaan Kortlandt |
| In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. | Al Rogers |
| This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) |
| You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. | Art Buchwald (1925-) |
| The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions. | Barbara Ward (1914-) |
| This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. | Barry Diller (1942-) |
| A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. | Benjamin Cohen |
| Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere | Chaim Potok (1929-) |
| To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. | Claude Simon (1913-) |
| In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it | Daniel Waters |
| It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. | David Leavitt (1961-) |
| We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation | Dean Acheson (1893-1971) |
| It is our illusions that create the world | Didier Cauwelaert |
| The earth laughs in flowers. | E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) |
| My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. | Faye Wattleton (1943-) |
| There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed | Frank Buchman |
| One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light | François R. Chateaubriand |
| I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. | Fritz Perls (1893-1970) |
| The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing | George D. Boardman |
| The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count. | George Mikes (1912-) |
| In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare | Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) |
| I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife [Madonna]. That's even why I married her. | Guy Ritchie (1968-) |
| The world is my lobster. | Henry J. Tillman |
| I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this | Hugh Hamilton |
| Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure | Irving Wallace (1916-) |
| The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing. | Israel Baal Shem |
| Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) |
| Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament. | Jacques Chirac (1932-) |
| The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will. | James Thomson (1700-1748) |
| The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when your enemy is loose on the other side | John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) |
| The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere | John Mortimer |
| A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. | Joseph Hall (1574-1656) |
| There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion | Kevin Patterson |
| The world is a beautiful place to be born into - if you don't mind some people dying all the time - or maybe only starving - some of the time which isn't half so bad - if it isn't you | Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-) |
| The whole world is run on bluff | Marcus Garvey (1887-) |
| We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us. | Max Depree |
| I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. | Morris Graves |
| The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival | Norbert Wiener (1894-) |
| Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) |
| Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence | Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus |
| The world is a beautiful place. It's just the people in it that make it ugly. | Patrick Thompson |
| Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place. | Rosalynn Carter (1927-) |
| The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| And that's the world in a nutshell - an appropriate receptacle | Stan Dunn |
| Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. | Stuart Chase (1888-) |
| In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos | T. Alan Armstrong |
| The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement | Tennessee Claflin |
| This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. | Thomas Dekker |
| The only child is a world issue now. | Toni Falbo |
| The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. | V. S. Naipaul (1932-) |
| This world has too low a ceiling for aspiring man! J | Wallace Hamilton |
| Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest | William Brighty Rands |
| For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world | William Ross Wallace |
| The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort | Zona Gale (1874-) |
| The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet. | Abdul Kalam (1931-) |
| Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made | Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) |
| Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world | Archimedes (280 f.Kr.-211 f.Kr.) |
| Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. | Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-) |
| The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. | David Mamet (1947-) |
| The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have. | Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928-) |
| The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. | Fidel Castro (1927-) |
| The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be anymore | John Berryman (1914-1972) |
| Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. | Nicholas Boileau |
| I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. | Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) |
| The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool | Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) |
| If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. | Robert Quillen |
| World is abundant.Intellect is redundant. | Rushi Prabhakar |
| We pass through this world but once. | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. | Walter Raleigh, Sr. |
| It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world | William Cobbett (1763-1835) |
| The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house | William Graham Sumner |
| It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home | Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) |
| The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. | Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) |
| I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. | Fritz Perls (1893-1970) |
| The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. | Faye Wattleton (1943-) |
| The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Change your thoughts, and you change your world | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing. | Israel Baal Shem |
| Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. | Harold Kushner |
| Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters like mine, for instance. I care as little for the world's opinion as that man cared for what was right. To appear right was enough for him; what I th | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| The world did not make any promises | African Proverb |
| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| The world will not believe a man repents; And this wise world of ours is mainly right | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. | Bern Williams |
| I do so hate to leave this world | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990) |
| The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it | Bible |
| The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. | Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) |
| Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| It is our illusions that create the world | Didier Cauwelaert |
| Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look. | Fra Giovanni Giocondo |
| This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest | Frederick W. Robertson (1816-) |
| I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. | Fritz Perls (1893-1970) |
| The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usu | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. | Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) |
| The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament. | Jacques Chirac (1932-) |
| There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will. | James Thomson (1700-1748) |
| The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world. | Lao Tzu |
| The world is a strange and wonderful place. | Laurie Anderson (1947-) |
| Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| It's a funny old world. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| I will maintain it before the whole world. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him | Molière (1622-1673) |
| The world is forbidden to those of the life to come; the life to come is forbidden to those of this world | Muhammad |
| The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those who went before you: then look to your action, and abstain from the world of wickedness | Muhammad |
| The world is a magician greater than Harut and Marut, and you should avoid it | Muhammad |
| The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman | Muhammad |
| The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. | Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) |
| In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The world has been made by fools that men should live in it | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill | Proverb |
| We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| The world is a gambling table so arranged that all who enter the casino must play and all must lose more or less heavily in the long run, though they win occasionally by the way | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The whole world is my native land | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| We pass through this world but once. | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. | Umberto Eco (1932-) |
| Declare World Party I ! | Vanna Bonta |
| I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time. the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them | Walter Kerr (1913-1996) |
| The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. | Walter Raleigh, Sr. |
| He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, that I may slumber in eternal sleep! | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Eating words has never given me indigestion. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |