Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
They were brought to Fangorn, and their coming was like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains.
Pierre de Coubertin’s ideas and messages are surprisingly still up-to-date representing the philosophy of the Olympic movement. This is a multifaceted and wise philosophy and everyone finds something personally important in it. I personally view as very important such ideas as people’s aspiration for perfection and unification, since only a peaceful competition forms the noble basis for the Olympic movement. This is as relevant as ever in the modern world, which opens unlimited opportunities for people, but at the same time is being torn by conflicts, contradictions and standoffs. However, I am an optimist and I strongly believe in the bright future of the international Olympic movement, I am glad to see changes that took place in the sports movement of Russia.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.