Wisdom Sayings

559 sayings found from 559 authors

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

— Augustus Caesar 14 CE
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is our intention to bear the unbearable and endure the unendurable.

— Emperor Hirohito 1945
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Today it is us. Tomorrow it will be you.

— Haile Selassie 1936
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Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

— Kurt Cobain 2002
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The greatest danger that faces Africa is the danger of Balkanization, the danger of being broken up into small, fragmented states.

— Kwame Nkrumah 1958
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We are moving towards a new world, a world of communism. We will never turn from this path.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1985
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

— Adolf Hitler 1925
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

— Joseph Stalin 1935
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I’m like a good Pinot Noir. I get better with age.

— Barack Obama 2012
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I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and f*** her. She was married.

— Donald Trump 2005 (released 2016)
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When you strike a match, you can light a fire, but you can also burn yourself.

— Lech Walesa 1980s
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The only way to self-preservation is to surrender.

— Vaclav Havel 1978
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

— Desmond Tutu Uncertain
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I am not a person to be afraid. I am a person to be feared.

— Indira Gandhi Uncertain
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Treason is a disease that must be cut out with a sharp knife.

— Ivan the Terrible c. 1560s
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I almost had to wait.

— Louis XIV c. 1670s
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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

— Frederick the Great c. 1770s
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The assegai is my father, the shield is my mother.

— Shaka Zulu c. 1820s
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.

— Walt Disney Unknown
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