Si vis amara, para bellum.” – 2011, my twist on a cliche.
”You could be the worst of the wicked, Arjuna, but Knowledge is the boat that will carry you across the sea of sin.” – Bhagivad-Gita 4/36
”When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears.” –Dionysus Cato
”Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.” –Rimy de Gourmont
“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected…” –The Lake, “The Alchemist,” by Paulo Coelho
”What is more beautiful than a beautiful woman?” – A.Vargas
“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.” – N.Tesla
”All are not cooks who walk with long knives.” – Russian proverb
“Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.” –German proverb
”Just say : ‘In the Name of En Esch, I would like another pitcher please.’” – En Esch (KMFDM/Pigface/Slick Idiot) skewing English a bit in his explanation on how to convey to the bartender that he has a running a tab.
”Qui Amicus est amat, qui amat non utique amicus est” – “One who is your friend always loves you, one who loves you is not always your friend.” –Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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