Agatha Christie
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
– Agatha Christie (an English writer)
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Confucius
“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”
– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC
Jacob Burckhardt
“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)
Homer
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
Truely a quote from the ancient Greek poet of Iliad and Odyssey fame but easily could have been from Homer Simpson!
Miss Piggy
“Never eat more than you can lift”
– Porcine star of stage and screen
Aristotle
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Indira Gandhi
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
– Indira Gandhi (the former prime minister of India)