Short Quotes (4 Words)

(Bökönyi, December 13, 1993)
Sándor Bökönyi, Hungarian archaeologist (1926-1994)

Un malheureux cherche l'autre.
Margaret of Valois-Angoulême, queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)

Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash, American poet (1902–1971)

I am still learning.
Michelangelo, Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)

Statesmen remember things selectively.
Ursula K. Le Guin, American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

No gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch, Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)

Life cracked like ice!
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (1896–1940)

Patientia comes est sapientiae
Augustine of Hippo, Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)

Architects shouldn't play God.
Denise Scott Brown, American architect (born 1931)

Sportsmanship is for sportsmen.
Neal Stephenson, American science fiction writer (born 1959)

Stolen sweets are best.
Colley Cibber, British poet laureate (1671–1757)

Only human, after all.
Matthew Stover, American writer

Everybody's [in Berlin] gay!
Tracey Ullman, British-American actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer and director

Nobody listens to mathematicians.
Carl Sagan, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)