Aphorism of the week


With a lie you can get around the world,
but you will not come back. 

(from Russia)


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5/12: A setback is the chance, to start once again new and smarter. (Henry Ford)

3/12: Be smarter than others, if you can, but don't tell them. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

2/12: I think, we waste too much time with regrets. (Elizabeth von Arnim)

50/11: As soon as we are awaiting something, time begins to extend. And when we have scheduld work, time begins to shrink. (Waltraud Puzicha)

49/11: Friends are like stars at night; even when you can't see them at times, you know, that they are there. (from Spain)

48/11: Selfresponsibility, is the root for any responsibility. (from China)

47/11: What we do today, decides, how the world looks like tomorrow. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

46/11: I do not know if women are as intelligent as men, but I am sure, they are not so stupid. (Katharina von Medici)

45/11: If you want to be happy, don't increase your properties but reduce your wishes. (Lucius Seneca)

44/11: The thinking man changes his mind. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

43/11: How old you are, can be observed in the level of discontent, that is caused in the confrontation with new ideas. (Anselm Feuerbach)

42/11: Who does nothing today, has to live tomorrow like yesterday. (Gabriele Bauer)

41/22: The rat, which is leaving the sinking ship, is smarter than the captain, who is going down with it. (Jonathan Swift)

40/11: Never interfere your foe, while he is making mistakes. (Napolèon Bonaperte)

38/11: Own limits are to be passed over, external, are to be respected. (Peter E. Schumacher)

37/11: What you must learn, to do something, you are learning by doing that. (Aristoteles)

36/11: If you shy at new remedies - you have to suffer old maladies. (Sir Francis Bacon)

35/11: Europeans have the clock - we have the time. (from Africa)

34/11: A joyful life primarly consists in carefreeness. (Cicero)

33/11: The more luscious the plans the more tricky the action. (Erich Kästner)

32/11: Some people mix up difficult with impossible. (Gudrun Zydek)

31/11: Success and persistance is one and the same. (Gudrun Zydek)

30/11: Teamwork means, that everybody is teaming and one is working.  (Klaus Klages)

29/11: Friendship is a pearl, where you have to dive for very deep? (Roswitha Bloch)

27/11: Phoenicians invented money. But why so few? (Johann Nestroy)

26/11: Don't ask, how many listen to you, but if there is anybody who understands you. (Horst A. Bruder)

25/11: Finally at the end of our studies we keep in mind only what we apply in practice. (Goethe)

24/11: Honesty - the test of courage nowadays.  ( Rainer Karius)

23/11: Knowhow  is nothing without opportunity.  ( Napoleon Bonaparte)

22/11: Truth can primarily be stroken dead with headlines.  ( Karl Feldkamp)

21/11: Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.  ( Giordano Bruno)

20/11: If I had my life to live over. I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. (Nadine Stair )

19/11: Rule of success:  I never hunt 2 hares at once. (Otto von Bismarck) 

18/11: Only if prosperity takes deep roots, human rights stand on a solide base. (Richard Nixon) 

17/11: The world is like a book. Who never travels around, can see just one side of it. (Aurelius Augustinus) 

16/11: Who does not allow to be overwhelmed by the trueth, will be overwhelmed by the mistake. (Aurelius Augustinus) 

14/11: Only the lie needs the support of the government. The trueth stands upright alone. (Thomas Jefferson) 

13/11: First humans has split the atom, now the atom splits humans. (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Uhlenbruck) 

12/11: Hope hurries ahead, but courage must follow. (Gudrun Zydek)

11/11: One should not culitvate respect before law, but before justice. (Henry David Thoreau)

10/11: Many are persistent regarding the choosen way, but only few regarding the aim. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

9/11: The most dangerous worldvision is the vision of those, who never saw the world. (Alexander von Humboldt)