Love & Life Sayings

Drinkers of water, who are we? We are the people who will drink this water.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

It is not a question of whether man will fly to the moon but when.

The circumference of the Earth is 250,000 stadia.

He who studies the stars does not fear the darkness.

Nature is not a goddess, but a machine.

You know that Jeannin has the peony, Quost has the hollyhock, but I have the sunflower, in a way.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Before I was born it was completely paradise… the moment of [being] born is the moment the paradise is lost. Death is the regain of this paradise.

Death dances around my bed at night.

My empire is built on blood and iron, but sustained by loyalty and discipline.

I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Women hold up half the sky.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And a few other things, like the Japanese, the Germans, and the Italians.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.