Spruch-Suche

Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.

- Machol, Robert

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life?to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

- Macleish, Archibald

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

- Maritain, Jacques

It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

- Marquis, Don

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

- Marquis, Donald R.

Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty many a tower which when it frown'd with all its battlements, was only terrible.

- Mason

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

- Pandita, Saskya

Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority.

- Pike, Albert

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

- Proust, Marcel