Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi


Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William of Ockham


Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato


It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse


Iroha Uta

Flowers bloom and fade.
So does everything else.
My life is no exception.
As I left everything behind,
finally I could see a shallow dream without a drink.

Japanese pangrammatic poem created by not known artist
translated by Kaoru Oka


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon


Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln


Ideas are fatal to caste.

E. M. Forster


The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels


There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; you lose their respect.

Nicolo Machiavelli


Rent in Hell is relatively high.

Kaoru Oka


It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes


A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain


Even samurai, some lie.

Kaoru Oka


Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

Aesop


The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe


Some folk want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy