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1. "All sins are attempts to fill voids."

Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"

categories: Sin and Conscience


2. "All sins cast long shadows."

Irish proverb

categories: Sin and Conscience


3. "All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function."

Robert A. Heinlein

categories: Manners and Ethics


4. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


5. "All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought."

Joseph Joubert

categories: Youth and Age


6. "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

categories: Good and Evil


7. "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. "

Clive Staples Lewis

categories: Time and Passing


8. "All that is not given is lost."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Richness and Money -:- Various


9. "All the best songs are co-written by God."

Bono (U2)

categories: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion



10. "All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."

Alfred Emanuel Smith

categories: Politics and Diplomacy


11. "All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

categories: Reality and Imagination


12. "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Alexander Woollcott

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Manners and Ethics


13. "All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy."

Carl Gustav Jung

categories: Reality and Imagination -:- Talent and Genius


14. "All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."

Latin proverb, (inscription on clocks)

categories: Inscriptions etc. -:- Pain and Tears -:- Time and Passing


15. "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."

Jesus Christ, Matthew 26:52

categories: Peace and War


16. "All things living are in search of a better world."

Karl Popper, "In Search of a Better World"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Various


17. "All things truly wicked start from an innocence."

Ernest Hemingway

categories: Sin and Conscience


18. "All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

categories: Work and Laziness


19. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

categories: Truth and Falsity


20. "All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Truth and Falsity


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21. "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

categories: Truth and Falsity


22. "All very old men have splendid educations; all men who apparently know nothing else have thorough classical educations; nobody has an average education."

Stephen Leacock

categories: Education


23. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

English proverb

categories: Work and Laziness


24. "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."

Jean-Luc Godard

categories: Art and Culture


25. "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Daniel Boone

categories: Happiness


26. "Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third."

Ambrose Bierce

categories: Politics and Diplomacy


27. "Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "Family and Politics"

categories: Happiness -:- Love -:- Work and Laziness


28. "Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."

Dave Barry

categories: Various


29. "Altruism is the mark of a superior being."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

categories: Egoism -:- Human


30. "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "

Mark Twain

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Forgiveness


31. "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."

Cyril Connolly

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Youth and Age



32. "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

Phyllis Diller

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age


33. "Always buy good shoes, and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other."

Anon.

categories: Various


34. "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

categories: Justice


35. "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Ernest Hemingway

categories: Health and Alcohol


36. "Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."

Erica Jong

categories: Bravery and Fear


37. "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

categories: Forgiveness


38. "Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."

Brian Tracy

categories: Good and Evil -:- Memory


39. "Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."

Anon.

categories: Oration and Silence


40. "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"

categories: Various


41. "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Margaret Mead

categories: Human


42. "Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else."

Mark Twain

categories: Memory -:- Truth and Falsity



43. "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."

Evan Esar

categories: Richness and Money -:- Education


44. "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."

Jimmy Carter

categories: History and Nations -:- Justice


45. "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

Laurence J. Peter

categories: History and Nations


46. "America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote."

Bill Vaughan

categories: History and Nations -:- Politics and Diplomacy


47. "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Toynbee

categories: History and Nations -:- Politics and Diplomacy


48. "America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Sigmund Freud

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- History and Nations


49. "America is a young country with an old mentality."

George Santayana, "Winds of Doctrine"

categories: History and Nations


50. "America is the only country in the world where the poor have a parking problem."

Anon.

categories: Richness and Money -:- Question and Problem

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