Brazilians Speak Quotes & Sayings

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves. — Khalil Gibran

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have. — Samuel Richardson

A person is never as quiet as they seem, we are thickly layered page lying upon page behind simple covers. — Deb Caletti

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves. — Robert Reynolds

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational. — Joey Comeau

They sell the fact that you're susceptible to technical animism. — Daniel Suarez

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. — Katherine Anne Porter

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next. — James Lee Burke

The discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary, — Gloria Steinem

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible. — Elizabeth Bibesco

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy. — E. M. Forster

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. — Dag Hammarskjold

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. — Bob Graham