Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the English tongue." Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs,

was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions

Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real. 

Aber, sprach sie noch immer lächelnd, dieser Verdienst kann dir nicht Nahrung und Kleider schaffen, wer wird denn dem kleinen Fräulein die Kleider kaufen?

Hoy amamos lo que mañana odiaremos. Hoy buscamos lo que mañana rehuiremos. Hoy deseamos lo que mañana nos asustará e, incluso, nos hará temblar de miedo.

And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship’s account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days;

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Daniel Defoe

Quotes by Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

Written By Daniel Defoe

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