Discover below the Epic Quotes (with images): the shortest, most beautiful and famous quotes in history.
Wealth does not consist in having large properties, but in having few desires.
(Epictetus)
Today you are older than you have ever been, and younger than you will ever be.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
In order not to be slaves martyred by time, get drunk, always get drunk! Of wine, of poetry or of virtue, as you like.
(Charles Baudelaire)
The absolute of love is recognized by the restlessness of one who loves.
(Paul Valéry)
All those who are unable to learn have begun to teach.
(Oscar Wilde)
Doubt everything, but never doubt yourself.
(André Gide)
Falling is not a failure. Failure is staying where you fell.
(Socrates)
Don't pretend to be wise, but really be wise: we don't need to look healthy, we need to really be.
(Epicurus)
In the end, what matters is to live passionately, even when life rebels and hits you right in the face.
(Boris Vian)
Safeguard your right to think, because even thinking badly is better than not thinking at all.
(Hypatia)
It always seems impossible until it is done.
(Nelson Mandela)
It is never too late to be what you wanted to be.
(George Eliot)
Laughing at people of common sense is the privilege of fools.
(Jean de La Bruyère)
Those who are silent and those who bow their heads die every time they do so, those who speak and those who walk with their heads held high only die once.
(Giovanni Falcone)
What is done is similar to whoever does it.
(Philo of Alexandria)
Beauty is mixing the finite and the infinite in the right proportions.
(Plato)
Life is a long lesson in humility.
(James M. Barrie)
When the sage points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.
(Chinese proverb)
The fool has a great advantage over the man of genius: he is always happy with himself.
(Honoré De Balzac)
One must not judge the value of a man by his great qualities, but by the use he knows how to make of them.
(François de La Rochefoucauld)
Be the change you want to see in the world.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Nobody can be wise on an empty stomach.
(George Eliot)
It is better to be optimistic and to be wrong than to be pessimistic and to be right.
(Mark Twain)
Be yourself, not your idea of what you think someone else's idea of yourself should be.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Better to be feared than loved if you can't be both.
(Niccolo Machiavelli)
Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your inner voice.
(Steve Jobs)
Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
(Kareena Kapoor Khan)
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
(Steve Jobs)
Fools await their lucky day, but every day is lucky for those who know how to get busy.
(Buddha)
Stay close to everything that makes you happy to be alive.
(Hafez)
Short is the life we really live. Everything else is time.
(Lucio Anneo Seneca)
The two most important days in life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.
(Mark Twain)
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, study, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
(Pele)
Better to add life to days than days to life.
(Rita Levi Montalcini)
There are two kinds of fools: those who doubt nothing and those who doubt everything.
(Charles Joseph de Ligne)
Knowing what is right and not doing it is the worst cowardice.
(Confucius)
Wise is he who is amazed at everything.
(André Gide)
There are no formulas or methods: only by loving do we learn to love.
(Aldous Huxley)
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how kindly you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
(Buddha)
There are no six or seven wonders in the world; there is only one: love.
(Jacques Prévert)
If one looked from heaven to earth, what would appear to him the difference between what we do and what ants or bees do?
(Celso)
Life is short and we don't have too much time to rejoice the hearts of those who are with us walking down the dark road. Be ready to love! Be kind without delay.
(Henri Frédéric Amiel)
To be great you must first of all know how to be small. Humility is the basis of all true greatness.
(Pope francesco)
To love is to believe, to hope, to know. It is a test, a taste of Heaven.
(Edmund Waller)
The wise man knows he is stupid, it is the stupid who thinks he is wise.
(William Shakespeare)
If you've never eaten with tears in your eyes, you don't know the taste of life.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Only the dead and the stupid never change their mind.
(James Russell Lowell)
When a true genius appears in the world, it is recognized by the fact that all idiots gang up against him.
(Jonathan Swift)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
(Lao Tzu)
Before judging my life or my character, put on my shoes, walk the path I have walked. Live my pains, my doubts, my laughter. Live the years that I lived and fall where I fell and stand up like I did. Everyone has their own story. And only then you can judge me.
(Luigi Pirandello)
The smartest gives up. The world domination of stupidity is based on this sad truth.
(Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach)
The drama of our time is that stupidity has started to think.
(Jean Cocteau)
Remember to look up at the stars, and not at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and ask yourself what makes the Universe live. Be curious.
(Stephen Hawking)
The biggest lesson in life is knowing that even crazy people are sometimes right.
(Winston Churchill)
The smaller the mind the bigger the presumption.
(Aesop)
There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
(Plato)
Against stupidity we have no defense.
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
The higher we rise, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect each other, touch each other, greet each other.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
The strongest of all warriors are time and patience.
(Lev Tolstoy)
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
(Emiliano Zapata)
Even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
(Lao Tzu)
Happiness is love, nothing else. Happy is he who knows how to love.
(Hermann Hesse)
Do you want to be rich? Don't worry about increasing your wealth, but about decreasing your greed.
(Epicurus)
Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
(Muhammad Ali)
Even a stopped clock keeps the time right twice a day.
(Hermann Hesse)
Man, who has achieved perfection, is the noblest of animals. Separated from law and justice, it is the worst.
(Aristotle)
First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you. Then you win.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
I can resist anything but temptation.
(Oscar Wilde)
The finer things in life are either immoral, or illegal, or they make you fat.
(George Bernard Shaw)
Take your life in hand and make it a masterpiece.
(Pope John Paul II)
The wise man does not pursue happiness, but the absence of pain.
(Aristotle)
Action doesn't always lead to happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
(William James)
The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.
(Socrates)
Experience is the most difficult type of teacher because he examines you first, then he explains the lesson.
(Vern Law)
You will never be able to cross the ocean if you don't have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
(Christopher Columbus)
Nothing begins without ambition. Without work, nothing is done. The prize will not be given to you. You have to conquer it.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It's a real shame that we only learn life's lessons when they no longer serve us.
(Oscar Wilde)
Whoever wants to move the world should move himself first.
(Socrates)
Everyone knows that something is impossible to achieve, until a fool who does not know it arrives and invents it.
(Albert Einstein)
Many enemies, much honor.
(Gaius Julius Caesar)
If life is just a passage, in this passage we sow at least flowers.
(Michel de Montaigne)
