Categories Starting with “M”

“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

— Socrates

“We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”

— Marcel Proust

“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”

— Victor Hugo

“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”

— Bertrand Russell

“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

— Edmund Burke

“It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”

— Victor Hugo

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou