All Quotes and Proverbs

"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."

George Eliot "The Mill on the Floss"

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."

Fulton Oursler

Courage and Fear

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."

Publilius Syrus

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We die of too much life."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Life and Death

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We die, because we live."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We do not remember days; we remember moments."

Cesare Pavese "The Burning Brand Diaries: 1935-1950"

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

William Hazlitt

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing."

John Paul II

Patriotism

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. "

Thomas Alva Edison

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Marcel Proust

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anais Nin

Human

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own."

Jerome K. Jerome

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

John Dryden

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live."

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We go to school to learn to communicate, but all the teachers say to us is "shut up!""

Leo Anthony Gallagher

Education

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We have all forgot more than we remember."

Thomas Fuller "Gnomologia"

Memory

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift "Thoughts On Various Subjects"

Friendship and Hostility

God and Religion

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

George Bernard Shaw "Candida"

Happiness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal."

Tennessee Williams

Loyalty and Betrayal

Trust

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

Oswald Chambers

God and Religion

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less."

Epictetus

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide."

Ramsay MacDonald

Peace and War

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."

Agnieszka Lisak

Good and Evil

Power and Weakness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

Bill Vaughan

Education

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

Eric Hoffer

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Human

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."

Iris Murdoch

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."

David Russell

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 9.29 (Number of Voters: 7)

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police."

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Various

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."

Wendell Phillips

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Nikki Giovanni

Love

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

Life and Death

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship and Hostility

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."

Karl Popper "The Open Society and Its Enemies"

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it."

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Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place."

Edward de Bono

Question and Problem

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

Terry Hands

Defeates and Mistakes

History and Nations

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Edmund Burke

Law and Crime

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)