This is a complete collection of “foreign” quotes feeding the random “Think about it…” sidebar box. Russian expressions can be found in a separate post.
- “The best things in life aren't things.”
- “To be uncertain is uncomfortable; but to be certain is ridiculous.”
- “The causes of events are always more important than the events themselves.”
- “This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
- “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.”
- “All roads lead away from Rome, but people just walk along them the wrong way.”
- “If you can't afford a lawyer who really knows the law, get one who knows the judge.”
- “Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. And those who can't teach, become critics.”
- “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
- “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.”
- “Every saint has got past, and every sinner has got future.”
- “It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.”
- “Who the hell are you to tell me who I am?”
- “By the time Beauty saves the world, dickheads will have ruined it.”
- “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
- “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
- “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
- “The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
- “When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.”
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”
