Authors
Categories
- Anger (53)
- Art and Culture (340)
- Authority, Government (138)
- Beauty and Ugliness (75)
- Bravery and Fear (116)
- Defeates and Mistakes (121)
- Destiny and Fate (45)
- Dreams and Desires (98)
- Education (125)
- Egoism (62)
- Envy (38)
- Family and Loneliness (139)
- Forgiveness (49)
- Freedom and Servitude (83)
- Friendship and Hostility (118)
- God and Religion (218)
- Good and Evil (135)
- Happiness (147)
- Health and Alcohol (164)
- History and Nations (151)
- Human (290)
- Intellect, Judgement (159)
- Joy and Sadness (76)
- Justice (78)
- Knowledge, Ignorance (109)
- Law and Crime (111)
- Life and Death (347)
- Love (228)
- Loyalty and Betrayal (19)
- Manners and Ethics (250)
- Marriage (157)
- Memory (72)
- Nature and Animals (171)
- Normality and Madness (43)
- Optimism and Hope (86)
- Oration and Silence (93)
- Pain and Tears (77)
- Patriotism (36)
- Peace and War (104)
- Politics and Diplomacy (155)
- Power and Weakness (88)
- Question and Problem (81)
- Reality and Imagination (130)
- Richness and Money (170)
- Science and Technology (180)
- Sin and Conscience (93)
- Sorrow and Nostalgia (48)
- Success and Fame (155)
- Talent and Genius (82)
- Time and Passing (134)
- Trust (44)
- Truth and Falsity (206)
- Various (607)
- Wisdom and Stupidity (177)
- Wit and Humor (67)
- Woman and Man (155)
- Work and Laziness (124)
- Youth and Age (151)
Links
Register. Sell. Buy. Have a fun:
Laptops -:- Fragrances -:- LCD Monitors -:- Drawings
Quotations of selected author
Josh Billings
1818-1885. True name Henry Wheeler Shaw, American humor writer.
1. "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
categories: Forgiveness
2. "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
3. "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
categories: Oration and Silence
4. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Intellect, Judgement -:- Sin and Conscience
5. "Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Work and Laziness
6. "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
categories: Marriage
7. "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
categories: Life and Death
9. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
categories: Life and Death
10. "In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us."
categories: Youth and Age
11. "If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither."
categories: Truth and Falsity
categories: Happiness
13. "I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."
categories: Oration and Silence
14. "Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it."
categories: Health and Alcohol
15. "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."
categories: Manners and Ethics
categories: Sin and Conscience
17. "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
categories: Nature and Animals
Privacy Policy
2007-2009, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
Layout based on template by Darren Hester, DesignsByDarren.com