People
Total 2066 People
Jan
11
Aristophanes
Ancien
Open your mind before your mouth
Aug
28
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Polymath
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem...
Nov
16
José Saramago
Writer
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in th...
Feb
10
Bertolt Brecht
German Theatre Practitioner And Playwright
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shap...
Oct
03
Louis Aragon
Poet
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presuppose...
Jan
02
Isaac Asimov
American Writer And Professor
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has alway...
Dec
22
Henri-Frédéric Blanc
Author
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindne...
Jun
06
Thomas Mann
Author
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Jul
24
Alexandre Dumas
Novelist
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one mo...
Sep
29
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Spanish Writer
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried...
Mar
06
Gabriel García Márquez
Writer
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember...
Oct
15
Italo Calvino
Italian Writer
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the...
Jan
03
J.R.R. Tolkien
Writer
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;...
Sep
25
William Faulkner
American Writer
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, an...
Oct
20
Arthur Rimbaud
French Poet
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Nov
08
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
Aug
01
Herman Melville
Novelist
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
May
13
Alphonse Daudet
Novelist
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of child...
Jan
23
Stendhal
Writer
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Feb
18
Nikos Kazantzakis
Writer
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass o...
