Mathetes Quotes & Sayings

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith. — Alexander Gardner

Nature itself cannot err — Thomas Hobbes

She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one. — Barbara Kingsolver

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. — Robert Byrne

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends. — Zhang Ziyi

Deep malice makes too deep incision. Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed.
Richard 11, Act 1, Scene 1 — William Shakespeare

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. — Robert Mayer

Patience is the key to content. — Muhammad

In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period; so that we can perhaps ask ourselves if it is necessary or good to retain any memory of this exceptional human state.
To this question we feel that we have to reply in the affirmative. We are in fact convinced that no human experience is without meaning or unworthy of analysis, and that fundamental values, even if they are not positive, can be deduced from this particular world which we are describing ... — Primo Levi

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely — Max Frisch

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault. — Henry A. Kissinger

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. — Harsha Bhogle

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week. — Mike Nichols