Ludwig Borne Quotes

#1. You get one life and it rolls out like a long hallway carpet. It begins on the day you are born and keeps on rolling until you drop. There's no refresh button, no start-over option.

James Preller

#2. Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne

#3. History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

Ludwig Borne

#4. The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Ludwig Borne

#5. Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

Ludwig Borne

#6. Nought endures but change.

Ludwig Borne

#7. You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Ludwig Borne

#8. If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Ludwig Borne

#9. Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Ludwig Borne

#10. Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

#11. If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

Bill Jay

#12. The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Ludwig Borne

#13. Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Ludwig Borne

#14. If I avoid anything, it's that I don't really go to places that are like a little corner of England. I also never mind going to a dance show because I love it all so much.

Anton Du Beke

#15. Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Ludwig Borne

#16. Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")

Thomas Kyd

#17. Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Ludwig Borne

#18. I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn't be able to vote and are inferior to whites.

Susan Jacoby

#19. Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

Vivian Gornick

#20. The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Borne

#21. Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.

Dean Koontz

#22. To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.

Ludwig Borne

#23. Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

Pompey

#24. If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

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#25. Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Ludwig Borne

#26. Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Ludwig Borne