All Quotes and Proverbs

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Aldous Huxley

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To ignore the past is to jeopardize the future."

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Time and Passing

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination."

Cynthia Ozick

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

Winston Churchill

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

Françoise Sagan "La Chamade"

Envy

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"To know how to eat is to know enough."

Basque Proverbs

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."

Helen Keller

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To let someone speak and to listen to it - these are two entirely different questions."

Kazimierz Matan

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To love a thing is to want it to live."

Confucius

Love

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

David Viscott

Love

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To love and not be able to be together is like to ride in different cars on adjacent lanes - we ride side by side, we look to the windows of our cars, we smile at each other, but we can not change."

Kazimierz Matan

Love

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

Karen Sunde

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

Oscar Wilde

Egoism

Love

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Happiness

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."

E.M. Forster "Two Cheers for Democracy"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Edmund Burke

Patriotism

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To make woman unhappy only need to do nothing."

Lidia Jasinska

Happiness

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Marriage

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To me faith is not just a noun but also a verb."

Jimmy Carter

God and Religion

Trust

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."

Jack Handey

Art and Culture

Sports

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

Truman Capote

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."

Samuel T. Coleridge "The Collected Works"

Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

St. Thomas Aquinas

God and Religion

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."

Victor Hugo

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

Peter Ustinov

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over."

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To say that my fate is not attached to your fate is like saying "Your side of the boat is sinking.""

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Destiny and Fate

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To secure peace is to prepare for war."

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace and War

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

George Jean Nathan

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous."

Confucius

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered."

Voltaire

Manners and Ethics

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To teach is to learn twice."

Joseph Joubert

Education

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire "Premiere Lettre sur Oedipe"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love."

Walter Lippmann

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Human

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to."

Khalil Gibran

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."

E. M. Cioran

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors."

Voltaire

History and Nations

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Love

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today."

Ernest Hemingway "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."

Franz Grillparzer "Libussa"

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

Cyril Connolly

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)