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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. -- Mark Twain | |
| In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce? The cuckoo-clock. -- Orson Welles, "The Third Man" | |
| It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -- Leonardo da Vinci | |
| But you who live on dreams, you are better pleased with the sophistical reasoning and frauds of talkers about great and uncertain matters than those who speak of certain and natural matters, not of such lofty nature. -- Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Codex on the Flight of Birds" | |
| Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -- Leonardo da Vinci | |
