Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Leo tolstoy
Date: September 10, 2007
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.