Zawadi Quotes & Sayings

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. — Abraham H. Maslow

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on. — James E. Burke

No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities. — Karl Donitz

The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace

Wishes float where hope leaves off. — Louise Caiola

If poetry is outta style then I wish to bring it back — Justin Bienvenue

Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on. — William C. Bryant

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection. — Richard Russo