Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.



  Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)

Mais, aussitôt après, je pris garde que, pendant que je voulais ainsi penser que tout était faux, il fallait nécessairement que moi, qui le pensais, fusse quelque chose. Et remarquant que cette vérité: je pense, donc je sui


 René Descartes (Discours de la méthode)

Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of them says: “Boy, the food in this place is really terrible”. The other one says: “Yeah, I know. And such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and  it's all over much too quickly. (Annie Hall, 1977).

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse
 
 Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Königsberg)

Mettre en plein soleil son cœur ou son cul c'est pareil.
(Le Modeste, Nouvelles Chansons, 1976).

Pour reconnaître que l'on n'est pas intelligent, il faudrait l'être.
(Ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous, 1976).

Les hommes sont faits, nous dit-on, pour vivre en bande comme les moutons, moi j'vis seul et c'est demain que je suivrais leur droit chemin
                                                     
 Georges Brassens

First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va tout s'en va
On oublie le visage et l'on oublie la voix
Le cœur, quand ça bat plus, c'est pas la peine d'aller
Chercher plus loin, faut laisser faire et c'est très bien
Avec le temps...


 Léo Ferré

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness




 Martin Luther King Jr.

Je ne veux pas gagner ma vie, je l'ai. (L’écume des jours, 1946).

Le travail est l'opium du peuple...
Je ne veux pas mourir drogué!
                                                                                                                  
                                                                      
  Boris Vian

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Vladimir: Alors, on y va?
Estragon: Allons-y.
                        Ils ne bougent pas.

   Samuel Beckett

Les bourgeois, c'est comme les cochons: plus ça devient vieux,
plus ça deviens bête. 

                                         
                                                          Jacques Brel

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

 Charlie Chaplin

Quoi qu'elle donne à voir et qu'elle que soit sa manière, une photo est toujours invisible : ce n'est pas elle qu'on voit
(La Chambre claire)                                                        


 Roland Barthes

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

 Mahatma Gandhi

La peinture, c'est comme la merde;
ça se sent, ça ne s'explique pas.

 


 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
 
(Time Out, Londres, 19 Agosto 1992)

 Susan Sontag

La beauté sera convulsive ou ne sera pas. (Nadja)



           
           
 André Breton

May your God go with you.
 



 Dave Allen (David Tynan O'Mahoney) 

Dans un monde qui s'écroule sous le poids de la rentabilité, envahi par les sirènes ravageuses de la Techno-science, la voracité du pouvoir, par la mondialisation nouvel esclavage au delà de tout celà, l'Amitié, l'Amour existent.

                                
 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Há homens que lutam um dia, e são bons;
Há outros que lutam um ano, e são melhores;
Há aqueles que lutam muitos anos, e são muito bons;
Porém há os que lutam toda a vida
Estes são os imprescindíveis

  Bertold Brecht

Je ne suis ni pour ni contre,
bien au contraire.




  Coluche

A câmara será cada vez mais pequena, cada vez mais pronta a registar imagens efémeras e secretas, cujo choque paralisa o mecanismo de associação do observador. Nessa altura será de usar a legenda, com a qual a fotografia engloba a literatização de todas as relações vitais, e sem a qual a fotografia estagnaria no                          indefinido. (Kleine Geschichte                        der Photographie), 1931. 

 Walter Benjamin 

Nous ne sommes nous qu'aux yeux des autres et c'est à partir du regard des autres que nous nous assumons comme nous-mêmes

Il est beaucoup plus facile pour un philosophe d'expliquer un nouveau
concept à un autre philosophe qu'à un enfant. Pourquoi ? Parce que l'enfant pose les vraies questions.

 Jean-Paul Sartre

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

 Ansel Adams

L'oubli est un puissant instrument d'adaptation à la réalité parce qu'il détruit peu à peu en nous le passé survivant qui est en constante contradiction avec elle.
(À la recherche du temps perdu)                                                                                                                

 Marcel Proust

There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

David Frost

Rien n'est jamais acquis à l'homme. Ni sa force
Ni sa faiblesse ni son cœur.
Et quand il croit
Ouvrir ses bras son ombre est celle d'une croix
Et quand il croit serrer son bonheur il le broie
                       Sa vie est un étrange et                        douloureux  divorce
                       Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux

Un beau soir l'avenir s'appelle passé. C'est alors qu'on se tourne et qu'on voit sa jeunesse.

Louis Aragon 

All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them


Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

   Leonard Cohen

Ne marche pas devant moi, je ne suivrai peut-être pas.
Ne marche pas derrière moi, je ne te guiderai peut-être pas.
Marche juste à côté de moi et sois mon ami.

 
 Albert Camus

Life is what happens to you while
you're busy making other plans.
(Beautiful Boy, Double Fantasy, 1980).

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
 John Lennon

El amor nace de un flechazo; la amistad del intercambio frecuente y prolongado.


La poesía debe ser un poco seca para que arda bien, y de este modo iluminarnos y calentarnos.
 
 Octavio Paz

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

  Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)

Un libro es una cosa entre las cosas, un volumen perdido entre
los volúmenes que pueblan el indiferente universo; hasta que da con su lector, con el hombre destinado a sus signos. 

    
 Jorge Luis Borges
 

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. 

 Bernard Shaw

Soy ateo gracias a Dios.

La ciencia no me interesa. Ignora el sueño, el azar, la risa, el sentimiento y la contradicción, cosas que me son preciosas.

   Luis Buñuel

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing


Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

 Oscar Wilde

O uísque é o melhor amigo do homem, ele é o cachorro engarrafado.

A vida é a arte do encontro, embora haja tanto desencontro pela vida.

 


 Vinícius de Moraes

When women go wrong, men go right after them!

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

It's not the man in your life that counts. It's the life in your man.

 Mae West        Is that a gun in your pocket or                        are you just glad to see me?

De sonhar ninguém se cansa, porque sonhar é esquecer, e esquecer não pesa e é um sono sem sonhos em que estamos despertos.  
(Livro do Desassossego)
 
 Fernando Pessoa

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.



 Bertrand Russell

Sei que pareço um ladrão...
Mas há muitos que eu conheço
Que, sem parecer o que são,
São aquilo que eu pareço.

 António Aleixo

Be kind whenever possible…It is always possible.

 Dalai Lama

Chapéus há muitos seu palerma!

 Vasco Santana

I drink therefore I am.

It was a woman who drove me to drink. I never had the courtesy to thank her.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
 
 W. C. Fields

Je ne cherche pas, je trouve.

L'art est un mensonge qui nous permet de dévoiler la vérité. 

Les ordinateurs sont inutiles. Ils ne savent que donner des réponses.
 
 Pablo Picasso

  Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the     Galaxy)

¡No podéis expulsarme porque el Surrealismo soy Yo! (Dali, depois de ter sido expulso do movimento surrealista em Paris)

Picasso es pintor. Yo también. Picasso es español. Yo también. Picasso es comunista. Yo tampoco. (de um discurso)
 
 Salvador Dali

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

  Noam Chomsky

El más terrible de todos los sentimientos es el sentimiento de tener la esperanza muerta.

Desechad tristezas y melancolías. La vida es amable, tiene pocos días y tan sólo ahora la hemos de gozar.

 Federico García Lorca 

How do you do Nothing? asked Pooh. 
Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, `What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, ´Oh, nothing' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

 Winnie the Pooh

La propriété, c'est le vol (Etude sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement )

Le flux du discours est toujours en raison directe de la pauvreté de la pensée

   Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.



 Michael Ende

Sans l'ironie, le monde serait comme une forêt sans oiseaux

 Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault)

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

 Alice in Wonderland

Si la vie n'est qu'un passage, sur ce passage au moins semons des fleurs

  Michel de Montaigne 

Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

(Rhett Butler, Gone with the wind, 1939)
 Clark Gable

De palavras não sei. Por isso canto
em cada uma apenas outro tanto
do que sinto por dentro quando as digo

 José Carlos Ary dos Santos

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

(Don Vito Corleone, Godfather, 1972)

 Marlon Brando

La pataphysique est la science des solutions imaginaires, qui accorde symboliquement aux linéaments les propriétés des objets décrits par leur virtualité

   Alfred Jarry

We'll always have Paris

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

(Rick Blaine, Casablanca, 1942)

 Humphrey Bogart

L'homme n'est rien en lui-même. Il n'est qu'une chance infinie. Mais il est le responsable infini de cette chance

  Albert Camus

Go ahead, make my day

(Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact, 1983)

 Clint Eastwood

Si no hay café para todos, no habrá para nadie

 

 Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

(Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard, 1950)

 Gloria Swanson

L'homme n'est pas ancien comme le monde : il ne porte que son avenir

 Paul Éluard (Eugène Émile Paul Grindel)

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.  Aren't you?

(Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate, 1967)

 Dustin Hoffman

L'école n'est pas seule à instruire les jeunes. Le milieu et l'époque ont sur eux autant et plus d'influence

  Paul Valéry

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

  Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker)

Quand j'étais jeune, on me disait: "Vous verrez quand vous aurez cinquante ans". J'ai cinquante ans, et je n'ai rien vu.

Plus je connais les hommes, plus j'admire les chiens

J'ai dû oublier mon parapluie dans l'ascenseur. Mon parapluie doit être très inquiet de m'avoir perdu

Erik Satie

Eat My Shorts






  Bart Simpson

Me moriré de viejo y no acabaré de comprender al animal bípedo que llaman hombre, cada individuo es una variedad de su especie

  Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

 Max Ernst

É prá amanhã
Bem podias fazer hoje
Porque amanhã sei que voltas a adiar
E tu bem sabes como o tempo foge
Mas nada fazes para o agarrar

 António Variações

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

 Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

Albarde-se o burro à vontade
do seu dono.






Ramalho Ortigão, em Album das Glórias, 1881.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.




 John W. Gardner

Mal com el-rei por amor dos homens, mal com os homens por amor de el-rei.





Afonso de Albuquerque

We cannot solve a problem with the thinking that created it.

 

 
 Albert Einstein

Prognósticos só no fim do jogo.

 João Vieira Pinto

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.


John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961.

A minha vida transformou-se completamente. Deu uma volta de 360 graus.

 Paulo Futre, após abandonar o Atlético de     Madrid

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell
 

Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
 Confucius

Quem quer arranja maneiras, quem não quer arranja desculpas.

  Arsélio Martins (distinguido com o Prémio Nacional   do Professor 2007)

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves".
 Laotse  

If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.

Alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

If at first you don't succeed, give up.

                       I'm not normally a religious                        man, but if you're up there,                        save me, Superman!

                       D'oh!

 Homer Simpson

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

 The three wise monkeys (Mizaru, Mikazaru   and Mazaru)

if i had a doller for every brain you dont have, i'd have one doller.

Excuse me sir,I hope my horrible ugliness won't be a distraction to you.
 SpongeBob

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted.

  George Best

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.


  Joseph Heller (Catch-22)