All Quotes and Proverbs

"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."

Hubert Humphrey

Justice

Law and Crime

"There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens."

Desmond Morris "The Naked Ape"

Human

Nature and Animals

"There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't."

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Science and Technology

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bill Bryson "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America"

Various

Youth and Age

"There are only two books written: Someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Art and Culture

"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Peace and War

"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote de la Mancha"

Richness and Money

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power and Weakness

Various

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

"There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient."

George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island"

Various

"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk."

Charles Dickens "Nicholas Nickleby"

Art and Culture

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."

Thomas Sowell

Truth and Falsity

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

Life and Death

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

"There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense."

Miguel de Unamuno

Intellect, Judgement

"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

Joseph Roux "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Manners and Ethics

"There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."

Jane Austen "Emma"

Various

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Various

"There are positive pluses and negative pluses."

Lech Walesa

Good and Evil

"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

"There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work."

Joseph Joubert

Wisdom and Stupidity

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne

Defeates and Mistakes

Peace and War

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Douglas Everett

Reality and Imagination

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Louis Aragon

Intellect, Judgement

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."

Charles Dickens "Barnaby Rudge"

Human

"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

"There are three dimensions to credit cards, length, width and debt."

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Richness and Money

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics."

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth and Falsity

"There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Art and Culture

"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

William Somerset Maugham

Art and Culture

"There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth."

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Truth and Falsity

"There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'What happened?'."

Ann Landers

Human

"There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is guaranteed, but you have no influence over the first two."

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Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

"There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering - and even more difficult."

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Memory

"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."

C. S. Robinson

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Pain and Tears

"There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you."

Peter De Vries

Family and Loneliness

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

Voltaire

Truth and Falsity

"There are two classes of poets: the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art and Culture

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

Sir Thomas Beecham

Art and Culture

"There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."

William Somerset Maugham

Freedom and Servitude

"There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing."

French Proverbs

Various

"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't."

Heat-Moon-William-Least "Blue Highways: A Journey into America"

Various

"There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Rex Stout "Death Of A Doxy"

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Various

"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

Pearl Bailey

Talent and Genius

"There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

"There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder."

George Bernard Shaw "Major Barbara"

Various

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

Logan Pearsall Smith "Afterthoughts"

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

George Bernard Shaw

Dreams and Desires