The two look down. One sees a puddle, the other sees stars. What to whom?
Two cats in one bag will not get along…
The entire history of relations between Moscow and Ukraine for more than 250 years, since the union of these two states, is a systematic, reckless, shameless, brazen destruction of the Ukrainian nation by all means, even to the point of erasing every trace of it, so that not even its name remains.
There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
—Plato
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Having formed the Russian government, the reactionary bourgeoisie, of course, cannot conduct state work in the Ukrainian language. Because of that, the Ukrainian language, as the language of the Ukrainian state, is canceled and the "equality" of two languages – Russian and Ukrainian – is established. In fact, the Russian language is introduced, all paperwork is conducted in it, and the entire government speaks it, while Ukrainian is ridiculed and called "dog".
— Volodymyr Vynnychenko
“If the Fed Chairman were to whisper to me what his monetary policy was going to be over the next two years, it wouldn’t change one thing I do.”
Two times two equals five is sometimes a very charming little thing.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
—Socrates
There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.
—Pablo Picasso
The philosopher Kant said that two things always astonished and inspired him more and more: the starry sky and the consciousness of the law of kindness that a person recognizes in his soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
—Charles Dickens
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
—Immanuel Kant
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
—Voltaire
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
—Laozi
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
—Laozi
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
—Voltaire
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
—Voltaire
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
—Michelangelo
“My brother said to me, the other day, when he had been seeing one of our members pass away, Brother, we can say to one another what the two Wesleys said, ‘Our people die well.’”
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
—Voltaire
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
—Nikolai Gogol
Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we can do and what God can do are two very different things.
— Charles Spurgeon