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1. "The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."
Robert Bresson
categories: Truth and Falsity
2. "He who can find new wisdom in old knowledge will be a good teacher."
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Education
3. "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
David Ben-Gurion
categories: History and Nations -:- Reality and Imagination
4. "We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
Paul Gauguin, "Intimate Journals"
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
Benjamin Haydon, "Correspondence and Table Talk"
categories: Art and Culture
6. "The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce, "The Essential Lenny Bruce"
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
7. "Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination."
William Hazlitt, "Sketches and Essays"
categories: Various -:- Reality and Imagination
8. "Everything hurts - and what doesn't, doesn't work."
categories: Pain and Tears
categories: Various
10. "God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world."
categories: God and Religion -:- Life and Death
William Somerset Maugham
categories: Oration and Silence
12. "Chance makes our families, but choice makes our friends."
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Friendship and Hostility
13. "Marriage is a bad proposition, half end in divorce, and the other half end in death."
categories: Marriage
14. "Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."
categories: Authority, Government -:- Richness and Money -:- Various
Théophile Gautier
categories: Art and Culture
16. "Hell is truth seen too late."
John Locke
categories: Truth and Falsity
Menander, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man
18. "God invented chocolate, the devil added the calories."
categories: Various
19. "Books are ... funny little portable pieces of thought."
Susan Sontag, (Time, December 11, 1989)
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
categories: Authority, Government -:- Human -:- Life and Death
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21. "Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work."
Lewis Thomas, "On Thinking About Thinking"
categories: Art and Culture
22. "The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage."
categories: Health and Alcohol
23. "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."
Hermann Göring, (radio broadcast)
categories: Peace and War -:- Power and Weakness
24. "A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "English Notebooks"
categories: Various -:- Woman and Man
Ernest Gellner
categories: Manners and Ethics
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
categories: Happiness -:- Human
27. "Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Time and Passing
28. "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
categories: Sin and Conscience -:- Various
29. "An unjust law is itself a species of violence."
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime
30. "Let problems make you better, not bitter."
categories: Good and Evil -:- Question and Problem
31. "Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them very little."
Samuel Johnson
categories: Law and Crime -:- Power and Weakness -:- Woman and Man
32. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
categories: Art and Culture
33. "Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."
categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Truth and Falsity
Warren Buffett
categories: Richness and Money
35. "Tell the masses a lie often enough and for long enough, sooner or later they will all believe it."
Joseph Goebbels
categories: Truth and Falsity
Pierre De Beaumarchais, "Le Mariage de Figaro"
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Human
37. "Better single than sorry."
categories: Family and Loneliness
38. "A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."
categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Optimism and Hope -:- Wit and Humor
39. "Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows."
proverb
categories: Time and Passing -:- Work and Laziness
40. "Perfection is a road, not a destination."
categories: Various
41. "A goal is a dream taken seriously."
Henry David Thoreau
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Success and Fame
42. "Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
categories: Intellect, Judgement
43. "Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
categories: Authority, Government -:- Freedom and Servitude
44. "A BAD day's fishing still beats a GOOD day at work!"
categories: Work and Laziness -:- Wit and Humor
45. "In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
Federico García Lorca
categories: Life and Death
46. "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
Samuel Johnson
categories: Human -:- Good and Evil
47. "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Woman and Man
Henry Chester
categories: Various
49. "Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
50. "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
categories: Human
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