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1. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals


2. "Humor is the same as truth, only faster."

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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


5. "Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."

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."

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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."

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categories: Question and Problem -:- Richness and Money


9. "A Democrat -- too poor to be a capitalist, too rich to be a Communist."

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categories: Politics and Diplomacy



10. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons

categories: Education -:- Human


11. "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

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."

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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


16. "Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do."

Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Other Wind"

categories: Good and Evil


17. "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Mahatma Gandhi

categories: God and Religion


18. "Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."

Eric Gill

categories: Art and Culture


19. "War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time."

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."

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categories: Love -:- Marriage


22. "Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."

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categories: Defeates and Mistakes


23. "Man often finds relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another."

Anatol France

categories: Work and Laziness


24. "Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

Marlon Brando

categories: Art and Culture -:- Health and Alcohol


25. "Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy."

William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

categories: Wit and Humor


26. "Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

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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."

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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."

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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: Human -:- Love



43. "Life's not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, loudly proclaiming -WOW- What a ride!"

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categories: Life and Death


44. "The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive, contemplative mood."

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."

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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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