Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894 Category: Boldness
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish Category: Boldness
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish Category: Boldness
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. – Theodore Roosevelt Category: Boldness
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Truth
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. – Omar Khayyam Category: Marriage
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. РDom̩nico Cieri Estrada Category: Music
