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William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"
categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals
2. "Humor is the same as truth, only faster."
categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Wit and Humor
3. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
categories: Education -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
4. "England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."
John Florio, "Second Frutes"
categories: History and Nations
George Santayana, "Life of Reason: Reason in Religion"
categories: God and Religion
6. "Golf isn't a sport. It's landscaping with the wrong tools."
categories: Various
7. "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
Jean-Luc Godard
categories: Art and Culture
8. "Poor people have problems; rich people have challenges."
categories: Question and Problem -:- Richness and Money
9. "A Democrat -- too poor to be a capitalist, too rich to be a Communist."
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons
categories: Education -:- Human
Czeslaw Milosz, "Roadside Dog"
categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics
12. "Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."
David Lloyd George
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
13. "History keeps repeating itself because nobody listens."
categories: History and Nations
14. "In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
categories: Woman and Man
15. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
Albert Einstein
categories: History and Nations -:- Peace and War
Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Other Wind"
categories: Good and Evil
Mahatma Gandhi
categories: God and Religion
18. "Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."
Eric Gill
categories: Art and Culture
Ian Hay, "The First Hundred Thousand"
categories: Peace and War
20. "Life is the risk we cannot refuse."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
categories: Life and Death
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21. "Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it."
22. "Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."
categories: Defeates and Mistakes
23. "Man often finds relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another."
Anatol France
categories: Work and Laziness
Marlon Brando
categories: Art and Culture -:- Health and Alcohol
William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"
categories: Wit and Humor
categories: Law and Crime -:- Truth and Falsity
27. "History isn't a single road, but a multitude of them."
Horace
categories: History and Nations
28. "Econometrics have successfully predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions."
categories: Richness and Money -:- Science and Technology
29. "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
Simone De Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"
categories: Woman and Man
30. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnets from the Portugues"
categories: Love
31. "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
A. Whitney Brown
categories: Nature and Animals -:- Various
32. "How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"
Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"
categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime
33. "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
John Ciardi
categories: Education
34. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."
Winston Churchill
categories: Talent and Genius -:- Various
35. "Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."
Charles J. C. Lyall
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Politics and Diplomacy
36. "If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
Larry Gelbart
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
37. "Life is lived forwards and understood backwards."
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death
38. "The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
Francis Herbert Bradley, "Aphorisms"
categories: Bravery and Fear
39. "Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."
Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
40. "Our memory and our identity are ever at odds."
Ralph Ellison
categories: Memory
41. "The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."
Théophile Gautier
categories: Art and Culture
42. "There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
categories: Life and Death
Susan Sontag
categories: Various
45. "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"
categories: Beauty and Ugliness
46. "A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, "De Amicitia"
categories: Friendship and Hostility
47. "Fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying."
categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Life and Death
48. "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
Philip Guedalla
categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various
49. "I cry out for order and find it only in art."
Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"
categories: Art and Culture
50. "In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."
Terence, "Eunuchus"
categories: Oration and Silence -:- Various
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