Once someone said, 'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.' Who it was?
Bernard Shaw is a famous Irish playwriter, novelist and scriptwriter. Aphorisms distinguished with deep meaning and subtle humour earned him the greater part of his popularity.
Plato
Bernard Shaw
Paul McCartney
Henry Ford
"Let idiots and clowns go away from your life. The circus should go on tour!" Do you recognize the style?
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is a famous and popular Soviet stage and movie actress. Today many critics and journalists consider her one of the greatest Russian actresses of the 20th century.
Woody Allen
Rowan Atkinson
Adam Sandler
Faina Ranevskaya
The genial phrase - You never get a second chance to make a first impression - belongs to…
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is a French designer, the founder of the famous fashion house Chanel. Yes, there's always the first impression. And as we know it's the strongest one.
Marilyn Monroe
Coco Chanel
Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction". You know it for sure.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a famous French writer, poet and essayist, sky pilot.
Jason Statham
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paulo Coelho
"Write Drunk, Edit Sober". Short and clear - quiet his style:
Ernest Hemingway is an American writer and journalist. He became widely recognized due to his novels and numerous short stories - on the one hand, and his life full of adventures and surprises - on the other hand.
Leo Tolstoy
Lao-tzu
Ernest Hemingway
Jerome Salinger
"My motto is not to be worried but worry!" It sounds like...
Marilyn Monroe is an American movie star, the sex symbol of the 50s, singer and model. She became one of the most iconic images of American cinema and the entire world culture.
Brigitte Bardot
Marion Cotillard
Marilyn Monroe
Catherine Deneuve
The motivational quote "One who wants to do something will find a way; One who doesn't will find an excuse" from…
Socrates is the antiquity's greatest philosopher; Plato, Alcibiades, Xenophon, Euclid were all his pupils. Socrates' teaching marked a new stage in the development of antique philosophy when the human and spiritual values appeared in the spotlight rather than nature and the world.
Socrates
Margaret Thatcher
Vladimir Lenin
Franklin Roosevelt
"The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class" are the wise words of…
Karl Marx is a German philosopher, sociologist, economist, writer, poet, political journalist, and public person. A friend and like-minded person of Friedrich Engels.
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Ernesto Che Guevara
"Your hairdo influences how your day will go, and as a result, your life" - the author taught us:
Sophia Loren always believes that impossible is possible and considers dangerous red color her talisman. One of the world's most beautiful women is confident that it's impossible to find a woman equal to her.
Sophie Marceau
Audrey Hepburn
Sophia Loren
Marie Curie
"A day without laughter is a day wasted", said…
Even decades later after his death, Charlie Chaplin remains one of the most famous movie stars of all time. He became a pioneer of silent movies and made a huge contribution to the development of the motion picture industry. Tramp is one of the most successful and recognizable characters of Charlie Chaplin.
Yuri Nikulin
Charlie Chaplin
Eddie Murphy
Jim Carrey
The famous quote "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by idiots" belongs to
Sigmund Freud is an Austrian psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and neurologist. The founder of psychoanalysis. Suggested innovative ideas, which even today strongly resonate in academic communities.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
George Carlin
Sigmund Freud
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