“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
“Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds”
“A mighty flame evolves from a tiny spark”
“There's a way to do it better - find it”
“Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong”
“Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white”
“There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months”
“You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! ”
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly”
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different”
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence””
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends”
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur”
“If one door closes, another one opens”