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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I also read books, many books: but I learn less from them than I do from life. The only book that has taught me a lot is the dictionary. The dictionary, how I adore it! But I also love the road, an even more wonderful dictionary Ettore Petrolini

I am a heavy burden on a person, I almost suffocate him and demand that he should carry me; and, without relieving him, I persuade myself and others that I am sorry and want to make it easy for him by all possible means, but not by allowing him to get rid of my weight Leo Tolstoy

I am a part of all that I have met - Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first - William Congreve William Congreve

I am I plus my circumstances José Ortega y Gasset

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals, mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

I am in favour of legalizing all drugs. This is for one reason: I don't like the mafia Manu Chao

I am never so busy as when I have nothing to do Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

I am not young enough to know everything - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I am of the opinion that law must be respected never forgetting to apply it in a way to protect the weaker ones among us Romano Prodi

I am only a person who limits myself to raising a stone to check underneath. It isn't my fault monsters appear every now and then José Saramago

I am optimistic for the future of pessimism Jean Rostand

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

I am surely mad; but if I am not, then neither should the others be free - George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw

I am the State Louis XIV

I am truly free only when all human beings around me, men and women alike, are equally free Michail Bakunin

I am unable to hold translators in any kind of regard, because otherwise I would begin to write with an impersonal and flat language completely devoid of character Günter Grass

I appeared to the Holy Virgin Carmelo Bene

I believe I have found the missing link between animals and civilized man. It is us Konrad Lorenz

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered - Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

I believe that some day we will deserve to be free of governments Jorge Luis Borges

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil - Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy

I call a man, one who is master of his tongue Don Lorenzo Milani

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I cannot afford to waste my time making money - Alexander Agassiz Alexander Agassiz

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me - Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer

I can't change the past, but I can change my memories Anónimo

I carry inside of me a heavy burden: the weight of the riches I did not give to others (Rabindranath Tagore) Rabindranath Tagore

I committed the worst sin ever: I was not happy Jorge Luis Borges

I consider as barbaric any offence to a human being because he belongs to a different people, language, religion or social class Ludoviko Zamenhof

I could never figure how they can teach boys how to bomb villages with napalm - and not let them write the word 'fuck' on their airplanes - Marlon Brando Marlon Brando

I dedicate this edition to my enemies who have helped me so much in my career Camilo José Cela

I dedicated myself to investigating what life is and I don't know why nor for what it exists Severo Ochoa

I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I desire little, and that little I desire, I desire it little San Francesco d'Assisi

I do not believe in miracles. I've seen too many of them - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I do not believe that a man is worth so much as to have two women or a woman is worth so little to be the second choice - Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use Galileo Galilei

I do not meddle willingly in my own private affairs Karl Kraus

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards - William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good … and it would spread a lively terror - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

I don't drink alcohol. But not because of virtue, but because there is a drink which I like better, and that is water Jorge Luis Borges

I don't ever write my name on books that I buy; I only do so after having read them as only then can I say they're mine Carlo Dossi

I don't have time to be in a hurry - John Wesley John Wesley

I don't know whether God exists, but if he doesn't he makes a better impression Stefano Benni

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone - Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn

I don't want to demonstrate anything, I just want to show Federico Fellini

I don't want to end up on the operating table in order to live for a few more months - it's not worth it. I prefer to die with a smile on my face Margherita Hack

I fear very much that the Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on the top they are just as intolerant and cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath - Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving... we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie the anchor - Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes

I firmly reserve the right to contradict myself Paul Claudel

I give no alms. I am not poor enough for that Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own - J.P. Donleavy J.P. Donleavy

I hated my years in Parliament as much as I hated my years at the Azeglio high school in Turin. A complete and utter waste of time Susanna Agnelli

I have always planned my life so that I could die with three hundred thousand things on my conscience but not a single regret Fabrizio De André

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians Charles De Gaulle

I have learned that a life is worthless but nothing is worth more than a life André Malraux

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution - Wernher von Braun Wernher von Braun

I have lived many lives through the long ages. Man, the individual, has made no moral progress in the past ten thousand years. I affirm this absolutely - Jack London Jack London

I have never been the author of anything, since I have always come up with things that were in the air Nicanor Parra

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve - Charles Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh

I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

I heartily believe revolution to be the source of legal right Fidel Castro

I hold the world but as the world, a stage where every man must play a part - William Shakespeare William Shakespeare

I hope I never get so old I get religious Ingmar Bergman

I know nothing of today's literature. For some time now my contemporary writers have been the Greeks Jorge Luis Borges

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I just do not know Jean Cocteau

I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: 'Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?' Leonardo Da Vinci

I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talk. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don't understand what I said - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

I love Germany so very much that I preferred two of them Giulio Andreotti

I love women, but I don't admire them - Charles Chaplin Charlie Chaplin

I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. If only they were not conjugations, but reality Mario Moreno (Cantinflas)

I loved, I was loved, the sun caressed my face. Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we're even! Amado Nervo

I made this drawing in less than five minutes, but it took me sixty years to be able to do that Auguste Renoir

I need poetry to express what cannot be said José Hierro

I need to be needed Anónimo

I need to feel the same respect for my mother as one feels for an ideal Anne Frank

I never expect a soldier to think - George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw

I never intended to get close to the people with my writings. Actually, I never intended to get close to anybody Jorge Luis Borges

I paint things as I think them, not as I see them Pablo Picasso

I possess nothing so completely as that which I have given away Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I quote others only in order to express myself the better Michel de Montaigne

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction - Aneurin Bevan Aneurin Bevan

I really do feel that genuine translation of text requires understanding of the text, and understanding requires having lived in the world and dealt with the physical world and is not just a question of manipulating words - Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadter

I really don't trust statistics much. A man with his head in a hot oven and his feet in a freezer has statistically an average body temperature - Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski

I see no error made which I might not have committed myself Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies - Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my dog - Charles V Charles V

I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death (Anne Frank) Anne Frank

I support the legalisation of drugs... at least in sport Massimiliano Badiali

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; not one is dissatisfied - not one is demented with the mania of owning things; not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth - Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

I think killing any living creature is a little like killing ourselves and I see no difference between an animal's suffering and a human being's Margherita Hack

I think that Kissinger is the most conspicuous criminal of war at liberty in the world - Gore Vidal Gore Vidal

I think, therefore I exist René Descartes

I use the parties in the same way as I use taxis: I get in, pay for the ride, get off Enrico Mattei

I value, above all other things out of my own control, the joining of hands of friendship with men who are sincere lovers of truth Baruch De Spinoza

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees Pablo Neruda

I wanted perfection and I ruined what was working well Claude Monet

I was anti-communist when there were communists Giovanni Sartori

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest - Martin Luther King Martin Luther King

I will look at all lands as if they belonged to me, and at mine as if they belonged to everyone Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I wish only not to have desires Anónimo

I would like the death certificate of every human being to be written in the same language as his birth certificate Bertolt Brecht

I would like to see priests getting married, hetero-and homo-sexuals alike Anónimo

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong - Betrand Russell Bertrand Russell

I would rather be an optimist and wrong than a pessimist and right Kurt Gödel

idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem - John Galsworthy John Galsworthy

idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive - William F. Buckley William F. Buckley

idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power - Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley

ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? Joseph Stalin

ideas are more powerful than nuclear weapons Fidel Castro

ideology is the thought's toughest jailer Yossi Sucary

idleness is the beginning of all vice and the crown of all virtues Franz Kafka

if a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good - Ezra Pound Ezra Pound

if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties - Francis Bacon Francis Bacon

if a master can't do without his slave, which of the two is a free man? Albert Camus

if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be - Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

if a woman is shabbily dressed it's her dress that's noticed, but if she is impeccably dressed it's she who is noticed Coco Chanel

if a woman surrenders it is only because she has won Aldo Cammarota

if corrupted people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same Leo Tolstoy

if culture has become merchandise it is little wonder that men too have come to the same end - Anonymous Anonymous

if even one of us, any ordinary human being, is at this time suffering greatly, is sick or hungry, it involves all of us. It must, as to ignore the suffering of others is always one of the basest acts of violence Gino Strada

if everything on Earth were rational, nothing would happen Fedor Michailovich Dostoevski

if God had not made woman, He wouldn't have made the flower either Victor Hugo

if I could write the beauty of your eyes - William Shakespeare William Shakespeare

if I have written such a long letter, it means that I did not have enough time to make it shorter Blaise Pascal

if I was an emperor, I would start by making a dictionary, in order to give a meaning to every word Confucio

if I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone Roberto Bolaño

if inspiration comes to me, it will find me painting Pablo Picasso

if Israelis don't want to stand accused of being Nazis they should simply stop acting like Nazis - Norman G. Finkelstein Norman G. Finkelstein

if it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it - Tom Robbins Tom Robbins

if it's possible to donate organs to save a patient's life, why not donate proteins to save those dying of hunger? Anónimo

if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear - George Orwell George Orwell

if living is good, dreaming is better, and awakening is the best of all Antonio Machado

if my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster - Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov

if one had to learn all the laws, there would be no time left to break them Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

if one has to refer to any parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied territories - Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela

if only it were as easy to uncover the truth as to demonstrate the falsehood Marcus Tullius Cicero

if only we were able to become united... how beautiful and near at hand the future would be Ernesto Che Guevara

if people better understood the danger of using certain words, dictionaries would be displayed in bookstore windows wrapped in a red band: 'Explosive. Handle with care' André Maurois

if people knew themselves better they would learn to hate themselves Ennio Flaiano

if spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

if the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged - Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky

if the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them - Adlai Stevenson Adlai Stevenson

if the youth of today effectively disapprove of the omnipotent and mysterious mafia it could very well cease to be a pervasive nightmare Paolo Borsellino

if there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

if there is violence in football, it's because today in Italy winning is all that counts Arrigo Sacchi

if there were no prisons, we would realise that we are all in chains Maurice Blanchot

if they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night - Angela Davis Angela Davis

if two people love each other there can be no happy end to it - Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway

if voting changed anything, they would make it illegal - Anonymous Anonymous

if we are not in conflict with reason we shall never conclude anything - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

if we want an end to ethnic conflict we have to invest less in war and more in the culture of peace Federico Mayor Zaragoza

if we want things to change, the banks should be occupied and the television should be blown up. There is no other revolutionary solution possible Luciano Bianciardi

if you are a fatalist, what can you do about it? - Ann Edwards-Duff Ann Edwards-Duff

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry Anton Chekhov

if you are so intelligent, how come you've become rich? Anónimo

if you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused - Walter F. Mondale Walter F. Mondale

if you do not expect the unexpected you will not unearth it, so evasive and improbable is it Heraclitus

if you explain yourself with an example, I won't understand a thing Ennio Flaiano

if you give the impression that you need something, you will get nothing. To make money you have to appear to be rich Alexander Dumas

if you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself Hermann Hesse

if you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke - Brendan Behan Brendan Behan

if you have been happy, it does not count as a mistake - Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe

if you have faith in yourself, others will have faith in you, too Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

if you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

if you help someone in trouble you can be sure that they'll remember it ... the next time they're in trouble - H.V. Prochnow H.V. Prochnow

if you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat Simone de Beauvoir

if you love what you do, it will never be a job Confucio

if you say yes to everything and everyone it's as if you don't exist Tahar Ben Jelloun

if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart - Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela

if you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything - Mark Twain Mark Twain

if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever - George Orwell George Orwell

if you want an old age that lasts many years, start being old soon Marcus Porcius Cato

if you want friendship, gentleness and poetry to cross your path through life, take them with you Georges Duhamel

if you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves - Don Marquis Don Marquis

if you want to know what a woman really means, look at her, don't listen to her - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

if you want to learn, then teach Marcus Tullius Cicero

if you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans Blaise Pascal

if you wish to avoid looking at an idiot, break your mirror first François Rabelais

if you wish to make someone happy, rather than give him gifts you should deprive him of desires Lucius Annaeus Seneca

if you wish to savour your good qualities, commit a sin from time to time Ugo Ojetti

if your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong - Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson

if you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you - Billy Wilder Billy Wilder

if you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing - Malcom X Malcom X

if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - Henry J. Tillman Steven Right

if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original - Ken Robinson Ken Robinson

ignorance is closer to the truth than a priori knowledge Denis Diderot

ignorance is spreading in a terrifying way José Saramago

ignorance is the greatest source of happiness Giacomo Leopardi

ignorance is the mother of sexual happiness and bliss Giordano Bruno

ignorance of your own ignorance, is ignorance at its worst San Girolamo

imagination consoles us for what we are not, humour for what we are - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory Pierre Bonnard

immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal - T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot

immortal is he who accepts the moment Cesare Pavese

immunity is to impunity as honourable is to man of honour Giacomo Casanova

in all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings - Robert G. Ingersoll Rober Green Ingersoll

in all things we learn only from those we love Johann Peter Eckermann

in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness - Saul Bellow Saul Bellow

in archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known - Thomas Pickering Thomas Pickering

in cases of doubt, one decides for what is right Karl Kraus

in certain situations unkind words are best - Anonymous Anónimo

in crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity - the epidemic of overproduction Karl Marx

in economics, the majority is always wrong - John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith

in every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty - Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

in fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

in general, every country has the language it deserves Jorge Luis Borges

in general, men believe easily in that which they desire Caius Iulius Caesar

in great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are Nicolas de Chamfort

in his life, a man can change his wife, his political opinions or his religion but not his football team Eduardo Galeano

in Italy the majority of politicians don't fight for projects, but to defend their own interests Indro Montanelli

in jest one can say anything, even the truth Sigmund Freud

in many cases servitude is not an instance of duress on the part of the master, but a temptation for the servile Indro Montanelli

in matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place - Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi

in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

in my love stories remorse used to come afterwards, now it goes before me Ennio Flaiano

in my times there were no best-sellers, and we could not prostitute ourselves. There was nobody wanting to buy our prostitution Jorge Luis Borges

in no other language is it as difficult to reach agreement as in one's own Karl Kraus

in one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said Pablo Neruda

in order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

in order to live many years the only thing to be avoided is life Anónimo

in politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman - Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher

in politics, the true saint is the man who uses his whip and kills the people for their own good Charles Baudelaire

in principle, a porter differs less from a philosopher than a mastiff from a greyhound. It is the division of labor which has set a gulf between them Karl Marx

in prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends - John Churton Collins John Churton Collins

in relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka - Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer

in seeking the good of others, we find our own Plato

in seeking wisdom, the first step is silence; the second, listening; the third, remembering; the fourth, practicing; the fifth, teaching others Solomon Ibn Gabirol

in the concentration camps we used to live from minute to minute and we had to keep reflection to a minimum, for thinking is wearing Haïm-Vidal Sephiha

in the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word - Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King Martin Luther King

in the fight between you and the world, back the world - Frank Zappa Frank Zappa

in the future world there will be I don't know how many dialects, but only four languages: Spanish, English, Arabic and Chinese Camilo José Cela

in the past, to subjugate the people, the powerful used force, laws and religion; now, they also have football and television Carl William Brown

in the United States, more prisons are built each year than schools and colleges Jesús Sepúlveda

in this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich - Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher

in this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

in times of crisis, only imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

in times of war, the law falls silent Marcus Tullius Cicero

in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

incompetence will show in the use of too many words - Ezra Pound Ezra Pound

increase in wisdom can be measured accurately by the corresponding decrease in anger Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

indigenous peoples are the moral reserve of humanity Evo Morales

infidel: in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does - Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce

insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - George Carlin George Carlin

instead of abolishing the rich, we must abolish the poor - George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw

instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks - Doug Larson Doug Larson

intelligence is a moral concept Theodor W. Adorno

internet colossuses are becoming more and more the exclusive intermediaries between producers and consumers Antonello Soro

interpreter: one who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said - Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce

involutional melancholia Joseph Stalin

is it democratic to make people pay taxes in a country where 90 per cent of the population doesn't want to pay them? Anónimo

is it the girls on the street that imitate the girls on the television or the other way round? Or is it simply that they go to the same consultants? Anónimo

is there any sense in talking about 'compulsory schooling'? Anónimo

is there any use in living if you don't have the courage to fight? Giuseppe Fava

is there anything in what we say? - George Steiner George Steiner

is there anything more precious to a people than the language of its forefathers? Johann Gottfried von Herder

isn't it ironic that a place known as the Holy Land is the place of the fiercest and deepest hatred that exists on this planet? Daniele Luttazzi

it can sound ridiculous, but let me say it: the true revolutionary is guided by deep feelings of love Ernesto Che Guevara

it doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else - Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers

it is a crime against humanity to convert agricultural productive soil into soil which produces food stuff that will be turned into biofuel Jean Ziegler

it is a heretic which builds a fire, not she who burns in't - William Shakespeare William Shakespeare

it is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

it is a mistake to suppose that no man understands his own character. Most persons know even their failings very well, only they persist in giving them names different from those usually assigned by the rest of the world - Arthur Helps Arthur Helps

it is always easier to change your man than to change a man - Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe

it is as difficult for the rich to acquire wisdom as is it for the wise to acquire riches - Epictetus Epictetus

it is because humanity didn't know where it was going that it managed to find its path - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

it is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both Guy de Maupassant

it is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare - Mark Twain Mark Twain

it is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember - Eugene McCarthy Eugene Joseph McCarthy

it is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong Voltaire

it is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid - George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw

it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it - Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair

it is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best - Lord Lytton Lord Lytton

it is difficult to see who willingly goes along with the tide Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

it is difficult, in art, to say something that is as good as saying nothing Ludwig Wittgenstein

it is easier to fight for your beliefs than live up to them - Alfred Adler Alfred Adler

it is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend - William Blake William Blake

it is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor - Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer

it is easier to teach everyone a second language than to build a machine capable of translating Anónimo

it is easy to write one's memoirs, when one has a bad memory Arthur Schnitzler

it is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself - Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

it is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward André Gide

it is hard to be sincere if you are intelligent, in the same way as being honest when you are ambitious Fernando Pessoa

it is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place - H.L. Mencken H.L. Mencken

it is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself Ralph Waldo Emerson

it is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do - Jerome K. Jerome Jerome K. Jerome

it is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians Henrik Ibsen

it is man in his totality who is conditioned by the labour apparatus to behave productively; when outside the factory, he preserves the same skin and the same head Christophe Dejours

it is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them François de La Rochefoucauld

it is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow François de La Rochefoucauld

it is my opinion, and I share it Henri-Bonaventure Monnier

it is not a good thing to get all you want Heraclitus

it is not freedom that is wanting, but free men Leo Longanesi

it is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions Sven Lindqvist

it is not life that is prolonged, it is old age Anónimo

it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change - Charles Darwin Charles Darwin

it is not uncommon to meet thieves who sermonize against theft Miguel de Unamuno

it is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live Victor Hugo

it is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying André Gide

it is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

it is only with the heart that one can see right, what is essential is invisible to the eye Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

it is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way Aristotle

it is rare that men who nurture the utmost respect for women are held in high regard by them - Joseph Addison Joseph Addison

it is sad to consider that Nature speaks but mankind does not listen Victor Hugo

it is sometimes no less eloquent to remain silent Plinius Minor

it is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck - Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad

it is uncertain in what place death may await thee; therefore expect it in any place Lucius Annaeus Seneca

it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work - David Hockney David Hockney

it is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning - Henry Ford Henry Ford

it often happens that the firebug is not brought to book but the person who gave the alarm is castigated Nicolas de Chamfort

it seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more - Woody Allen Woody Allen

it takes a very long time to become young Pablo Picasso

it takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance - Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell

it takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you - Mark Twain Mark Twain

it took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous - Robert Benchley Robert Benchley

it was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do' - Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson

it was his fate, as it is for all men, to live through hard times Jorge Luis Borges

it would be some consolation for the feebleness of ourselves and our works, if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Italians are always ready to rush to the aid of winners Ennio Flaiano

Italians lose wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars - Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

Italy is falling into ruins in a wealth of egoism, stupidity, lack of culture, gossip, moralism, coercion and conformation. To lend oneself in any way by means of a contribution to this ruin is, by now, fascism Pier Paolo Pasolini

it's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own - Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman

it's amazing that one fortune-teller doesn't laugh at the sight of another Marcus Tullius Cicero

it's amusing the thoughtlessness with which the wicked think that all will go well Victor Hugo

it's better not to have laws than to break them every day Ugo Foscolo

it's better to fret in doubt than to rest in error Alessandro Manzoni

it's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be - Warren Buffett Warren Buffett

it's difficult not to have a desire for someone else's woman; those belonging to nobody are, after all, not very attractive Enzo Biagi

it's easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice Albert Einstein

it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled - Mark Twain Mark Twain

it's good to slowly come to the realisation that you understand nothing Maurice Maeterlinck

it's never his virtues, but always his vices, that tell us on each occasion who the man is Umberto Galimberti

it's not conscience that determines life, but life that determines conscience Karl Marx

it's not the struggle that makes us be artists, but Art that makes us struggle Albert Camus

it's not true that rainy days are the worst, they are the only days in which you can walk holdin' your head high even if you are cryin' - Jim Morrison Jim Morrison

it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well - Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski

it's this love I have for books that's made me the smartest idiot in the world Louise Brooks

it's very difficult working in an exemplary way and, at the same time, despising the job you are doing Milan Kundera

it's when we forget ourselves that we do things which deserve to be remembered - Anonymous Anonymous

I'd rather annoy with the truth than please with adulation Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm a man with the same limits of anyone of my generation. But I've never said what I didn't want to say, even if I've not always said what I wanted to say Enzo Biagi

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal - Milton Friedman Milton Friedman

I'm no communist - I can't afford to be one Ennio Flaiano

I'm no pessimist. Recognising evil wherever it exists is, to my mind, a form of optimism Roberto Rossellini

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men - George Eliot George Eliot

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. Being here in America doesn't make you an American - Malcolm X Malcolm X

I'm shocked by the legalisation of abortion as I, like many others, consider it as legalising murder Pier Paolo Pasolini

I'm still an atheist, thank God Luis Buñuel

I'm surrounded by priests who harp on about their authority not being of this world, but who, all the same, help themselves to and greedily grasp anything that comes within reach Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

I'm worried as I'm beginning to have ideas that I don't agree with Francesco Tullio Altan

I've a grand memory for forgetting - Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson

I've always been astonished by the absurd turns rivers have to make to flow under every bridge Beppe Grillo

I've always believed that if there's somewhere in the world where there are no pure-breds, that place is definitely Italy. In fact, our ancestors had too many opportunities for amusement Enzo Biagi

I've been on a calendar, but never on time - Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe

I've done a peaceful coexistence deal with time - it doesn't pursue me nor do I flee from it, but one day we'll meet Mario Lago

I've never let school interfere with my education - Mark Twain Mark Twain

I've spent my life proving the rule Sacha Guitry