All Quotes and Proverbs

"The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

German Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."

James Thurber

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature."

Various Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"The word "tomorrow" was invented for indecisive people and for children."

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev "Andrei Kolosov"

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent."

Alfred Brendel

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

Théophile Gautier

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."

Levi-Strauss-Claude

Human

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

gen. Omar Bradley

Manners and Ethics

Peace and War

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Hermann Broch "The Spell"

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 1.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

Carlo Goldoni "Pamela"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The world is a cow that is hard to milk [...]"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Albert Einstein

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The world is composed of givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

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Good and Evil

Justice

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Francis Picabia

Defeates and Mistakes

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me."

Martin Buber

God and Religion

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity."

George Bernard Shaw "The Devil's Disciple"

Nature and Animals

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it."

Ellen Glasgow "The Woman Within"

Joy and Sadness

Peace and War

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."

Jean Cocteau

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

Joseph Stalin

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

E. L. Doctorow

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

Horace "Epistles"

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."

George Eliot "Silas Marner"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings."

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Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) "Ars Amatoria"

Human

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

Jean de La Bruyere

Life and Death

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

Mahatma Gandhi

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

History and Nations

Human

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Lectures and Biographical Sketches"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Oscar Wilde

Egoism

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Cyril Connolly

Courage and Fear

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

Heinrich Heine

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."

Benjamin Franklin

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Saint Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)

God and Religion

Pain and Tears

Rating: 2.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."

Raoul Vaneigem "The Revolution of Everyday Life"

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - if the term is to be used at all."

Bernadette McAliskey

Family and Loneliness

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are no strangers in this world, just friends we've never met."

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Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."

Louis Pasteur

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

Alfred North Whitehead

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

All Quotes and Proverbs

"The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."

"The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature."

"The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

"The word "tomorrow" was invented for indecisive people and for children."

"The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent."

"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."

"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

"The world is a cow that is hard to milk [...]"

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"The world is composed of givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me."

"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity."

"The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it."

"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

"The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."

"The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings."

"Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."

"There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature."

"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."

"There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

"There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully."

"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."

"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."

"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - if the term is to be used at all."

"There are no strangers in this world, just friends we've never met."

"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

"There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature."