Italy is a geographical expression.

I am a rock of order.

When Paris catches cold, all Europe sneezes.

History is the true school of politics.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

-- Mary Cassatt

If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.

-- Katsushika Hokusai

I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.

-- Johannes Kepler

All life is problem solving.

-- Karl Popper

I want to see Mount Fuji.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

When I had reigned ten years, I never imagined reaching twenty. At twenty I dared not hope for thirty or forty. Now I have reigned sixty-one.

-- Kangxi Emperor