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1. "When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

Sacha Guitry

categories: Marriage

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2. "When a politician wrestles with his conscience, he usually wins."

Joseph Sobran

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Sin and Conscience

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3. "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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4. "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

George Bernard Shaw

categories: Truth and Falsity

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5. "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

categories: Patriotism -:- Good and Evil

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6. "When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Victor Hugo

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Woman and Man

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7. "When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

categories: Marriage

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8. "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Abba Eban

categories: Intellect, Judgement

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9. "When angry count four; when very angry, swear."

Mark Twain

categories: Anger

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10. "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Winston Churchill

categories: Patriotism -:- Authority, Government

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11. "When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Reality and Imagination -:- Question and Problem

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12. "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Mark Twain

categories: Youth and Age -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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13. "When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."

Gracie Allen

categories: Various

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14. "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

categories: Art and Culture -:- Love -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

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15. "When I?m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I?m near."

E.Y. Harburg, "Finian's Rainbow"

categories: Love -:- Woman and Man

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16. "When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Ryszard Kapusciński, "A Warsaw Diary"

categories: Question and Problem

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17. "When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."

Bette Midler

categories: History and Nations

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18. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

Ann Landers

categories: Various -:- Question and Problem

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19. "When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

Ryszard Kapusciński, "A Warsaw Diary"

categories: Human -:- Question and Problem

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20. "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Contarini Fleming"

categories: Law and Crime

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21. "When men make gods, there is no God!"

Eugene O`Neill, "Lazarus Laughed"

categories: God and Religion

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22. "When one door closes, fortune will usually open another."

Fernando de Rojas

categories: Happiness -:- Various

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23. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

categories: Happiness

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24. "When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."

Zora Neale Hurston, "Moses Man of the Mountain"

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age

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25. "When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

John Donne, "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

categories: Life and Death

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26. "When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

Ellen Key, "The Woman of the Future"

categories: Reality and Imagination

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27. "When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Edward Dahlberg

categories: Life and Death -:- Various

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28. "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest."

Eric Hoffer, "Passionate State of Mind"

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human

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29. "When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window."

English proverb

categories: Love -:- Richness and Money

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30. "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"

categories: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money

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31. "When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

James Baldwin, "A Dialogue"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Pain and Tears

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32. "When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."

Tecumseh

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Various

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33. "When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

Pierre Corneille, "Le Cid"

categories: Health and Alcohol

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34. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

categories: Love -:- Peace and War -:- Power and Weakness

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35. "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"

categories: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money

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36. "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein

categories: God and Religion -:- Question and Problem

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37. "When the wine goes in, strange things come out."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Wallenstein"

categories: Health and Alcohol

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38. "When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."

Stefan Zweig, "Stellar Moments in Human History"

categories: Peace and War

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39. "When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage

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40. "When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"

Shana Alexander, "State-by-State Guide to Women`s Legal Rights"

categories: Law and Crime -:- Marriage

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41. "When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

Martin Buber

categories: God and Religion

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42. "When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing."

Joseph Roux

categories: Happiness

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43. "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty."

Arthur Ponsonby

categories: Peace and War -:- Truth and Falsity

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44. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Victor Frankl

categories: Human

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45. "When we can't dream any longer we die."

Emma Goldman

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death

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46. "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Mark Twain

categories: Human -:- Normality and Madness

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47. "When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Chrestomathy"

categories: Woman and Man

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48. "When words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

categories: Art and Culture

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49. "When you are solving a problem, don't worry. Now, after you have solved the problem, then that's the time to worry."

Richard Feynman

categories: Question and Problem

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50. "When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

Prue Leith

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age

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