Catherine > Catherine's Quotes

“The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.”
― Albert Einstein

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine”
― St.Thomas Aquinas

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds,
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
—Sonnet 94”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespear's Sonnets

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
― George Gordon Byron

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert