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1. "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

Helen Keller

categories: History and Nations

2. "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Education

3. "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

Oscar Hammerstein, from song "The Sound of Music"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals

4. "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

Willa Cather, "O Pioneers!"

categories: History and Nations -:- Woman and Man

5. "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Thomas Carlyle

categories: History and Nations

6. "The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls."

John Paul II

categories: Various

7. "The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

Mark Twain

categories: Friendship and Hostility

8. "The hottest hearts are obtained by cats of lonely women."

Lidia Jasinska

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Family and Loneliness

9. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."

Socrates

categories: Life and Death

10. "The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country."

Alfred Thompson, Baron Denning

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Politics and Diplomacy

11. "The house with no child in it is a house with nothing in it."

Welsh proverb

categories: Family and Loneliness

12. "The human face is the organic seat of beauty."

Eliza Farnham, "Woman and Her Era"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Human

13. "The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them."

David Gerrold

categories: Human -:- Question and Problem

14. "The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself."

Hannah Arendt, "On Revolution"

categories: Various

15. "The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness

16. "The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

17. "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

Aleksandr Pushkin

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Reality and Imagination

18. "The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Letters and Social Aims"

categories: Reality and Imagination

19. "The imagination is one of the forces of nature."

Wallace Stevens

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Reality and Imagination

20. "The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

21. "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

22. "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."

Will Rogers, "The Illiterate Digest"

categories: Richness and Money

23. "The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

24. "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

categories: Envy -:- Forgiveness

25. "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

Bertrand Russell, "Sceptical Essays"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Sin and Conscience

26. "The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other."

Miguel de Unamuno

categories: Intellect, Judgement

27. "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

categories: Intellect, Judgement

28. "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

Simone Weil

categories: Intellect, Judgement

29. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

Francis Bacon

categories: Art and Culture

30. "The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Chinese proverb

categories: Various

31. "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

Casey Stengel

categories: Authority, Government

32. "The key to education is the experience of beauty."

Friedrich von Schiller

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Education

33. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

Napoleon Hill

categories: Success and Fame

34. "The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Friendship and Hostility

35. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

Victor Frankl

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human

36. "The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

William Faulkner

categories: Human

37. "The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former."

Jonathan Swift

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

James Thurber

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

39. "The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."

Martin Buber

categories: Law and Crime

40. "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"

categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime

41. "The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

Mahatma Gandhi

categories: Love -:- Youth and Age

42. "The law often allows what honor forbids."

Bernard Joseph Saurin

categories: Law and Crime -:- Manners and Ethics

43. "The law says you can have only one spouse. This is called monotony."

Anon.

categories: Law and Crime -:- Marriage

44. "The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts"

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human -:- Law and Crime

45. "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Law and Crime -:- Truth and Falsity

46. "The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt, "Complete Works"

categories: Egoism -:- Pain and Tears

47. "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

Alfred Hitchcock

categories: Art and Culture

48. "The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body."

Fulton John Sheen, "Peace of Soul"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Good and Evil

49. "The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy."

Gerry Spence

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Richness and Money

50. "The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves."

James A. Garfield

categories: History and Nations

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