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1. "Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."
Vladimir Nabokov
categories: Wit and Humor
2. "Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."
William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"
categories: Various
3. "Satisfaction is the death of desire."
Anon.
categories: Dreams and Desires
4. "Saying is one thing and doing is another."
Michel de Montaigne
categories: Various
Deborah Tannen
categories: Woman and Man
6. "Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"
categories: Manners and Ethics
7. "Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
R. D. Laing
categories: Health and Alcohol
8. "Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
9. "Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts."
Brian W. Aldiss
categories: Art and Culture -:- Reality and Imagination
10. "Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride."
Claude Bernard
categories: Science and Technology
11. "Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."
Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life"
categories: Science and Technology
12. "Science is a voyage of discovery, and beyond each horizon there is another."
Francis Hitching, "The Neck of the Giraffe"
categories: Science and Technology
13. "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
Carl Sagan
categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
Henri Poincare, "Of Science and Hypotheses"
categories: Science and Technology
15. "Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."
Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
16. "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant
categories: Science and Technology -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
17. "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
Karl Kraus
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
18. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
Donald Knuth
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
19. "Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
Bertrand Russell
categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
20. "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russell
categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Reality and Imagination
Paul Ambroise Valéry
categories: Science and Technology
Bertrand Russell
categories: Science and Technology -:- Truth and Falsity
23. "Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
James A. Michener
categories: Science and Technology
24. "See in what peace a Christian can die."
Joseph Addison, (last words)
categories: God and Religion -:- Life and Death
25. "Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
Horace Mann
categories: Success and Fame -:- Truth and Falsity
26. "Seen from the moon we are all the same size."
Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"
categories: Human
Lev Tolstoy, "War and Peace"
categories: Happiness -:- Love -:- Reality and Imagination
28. "Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."
François de La Rochefoucauld
categories: Egoism
29. "Self-love is the source of all our other loves."
Pierre Corneille, "Titus and Berenice"
Oscar Wilde
categories: Egoism
31. "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"
categories: Egoism -:- Forgiveness
32. "Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
Norman Mailer, "Cannibals and Christians"
categories: Various
33. "Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
P.J. O`Rourke, "Give War A Chance"
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
34. "Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."
William Feather
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
Mahatma Gandhi
categories: Sin and Conscience
Peter Ustinov
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various
37. "Sex is a trap set by nature to ensure the survival of our species."
Kazimierz Matan
categories: Human -:- Love -:- Nature and Animals
38. "Sex is like money; only too much is enough."
John Updike, "Couples"
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Richness and Money
39. "Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation - the other eight are unimportant."
Henry Miller
categories: Manners and Ethics
40. "Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."
John Barrymore
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various
41. "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."
Woody Allen
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various
42. "Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."
Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"
categories: History and Nations -:- Manners and Ethics
43. "Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life"
categories: Power and Weakness
44. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."
Swedish proverb
categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia
45. "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
William Somerset Maugham
categories: Wit and Humor
46. "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up, Notebook E"
categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Various
47. "Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
categories: Health and Alcohol
48. "Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."
Henry Brooks Adams
categories: God and Religion -:- Oration and Silence
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
categories: Oration and Silence -:- Good and Evil
50. "Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"
categories: Oration and Silence
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