Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.
Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and THIS makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Itali...
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his ...
What was to be the value of the long looked forward to, Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders, Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit? The serenity o...
The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and ...
But we who remain shall grow old We shall know the cold Of cheerless Winter and the rain of Autumn and the sting Of poverty, of love despised and of disgraces, And mirrors showing stained and aging faces, And the long ranges of comfortless years And ...
Whoever has only one garment does not wash it when it rains.
You can only know the fleas in the bed you have slept in.
The rose has thorns only for those who want to pick it.
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
Pride goes only as far as one can spit.
Who has only one eye must take good care of it.
Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over.
Man is the only mammal that can be skinned more than once.
Only a fool gets drunk from his own bottle.
Only the fool points at his origins with his left hand.
You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
There are only two things from which to choose: profit or loss.
