All Quotes and Proverbs

"All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."

George Bernard Shaw

Egoism

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

Cyril Connolly "Enemies of Promise"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All diseases run into one: old age."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."

Sir Max Beerbohm

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."

Joseph Joubert

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us."

Hermann Hesse "Reflections"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

F. Scott Fitzgerald (letter to his daughter Frances)

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Lev Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"

Family and Loneliness

Happiness

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

Spike Milligan

Happiness

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God and Religion

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

Charlie Chaplin "My Autobiography"

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All I want is a little more than I'll ever get."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Egoism

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

Martin Buber

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner."

Red Skelton

Defeates and Mistakes

Marriage

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State."

Albert Camus "The Rebel"

Authority, Government

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Ezra Pound

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

Mark Kennedy

Science and Technology

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason."

Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All places are distant from heaven alike."

Robert Burton

Happiness

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

John Arbuthnot

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

Albert Einstein

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money."

Robert Collier

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Ernest Rutherford

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

Simone Weil "Gravity and Grace"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All sins cast long shadows."

Irish Proverbs

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function."

Robert A. Heinlein

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought."

Joseph Joubert

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

Good and Evil

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. "

Clive Staples Lewis

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All that is not given is lost."

Rabindranath Tagore

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."

M. C. Richards

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All the best songs are co-written by God."

Bono (U2)

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love."

Eleanor Farjeon

Courage and Fear

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."

Alfred Emanuel Smith

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Alexander Woollcott

Health and Alcohol

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy."

Carl Gustav Jung

Reality and Imagination

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."

Latin Proverbs (inscription on clocks)

Inscriptions etc.

Pain and Tears

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."

Jesus Christ Matthew 26:52

Peace and War

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All things living are in search of a better world."

Karl Popper "In Search of a Better World"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."

Ernest Hemingway

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Collected Essays"

Intellect, Judgement

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)