Quote #768
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...
Quote #31928
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and...
Quote #17624
He who limps is still walking.
Quote #13988
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Quote #2245
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in...
Quote #4978
Small to greater matters must give way.
Quote #29972
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Quote #3062
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop...
Quote #32026
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
Quote #18481
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can...