"We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure."

-- Hernando Cortes

#Heart Quotes #Historical Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.”
“Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.”
“The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.”

Source : "Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy".
“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA
“Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?”

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