All Quotes and Proverbs

"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers

Peace and War

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X "Malcolm X Speaks"

Freedom and Servitude

Peace and War

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

Indira Gandhi

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

Bonnie Prudden

Time and Passing

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

Albert Camus

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote de la Mancha"

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

William Ewart Gladstone speech to the House of Commons

Politics and Diplomacy

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You cannot have both truth and what you call civilization."

Iris Murdoch "A Severed Head"

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You do not inherit the earth of your ancestors, you borrow it from your children."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

Desmond Tutu

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."

Ken Kesey

Authority, Government

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."

Michael Pritchard

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You eat everyday, you sleep everyday, your body was made to exercise everyday."

Jack LaLanne

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

John Morley

Various

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You have reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night, you pray it isn't for you."

Ogden Nash

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner."

Venus Williams

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."

Ray Bradbury

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You have to study a great deal to know a little."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Education

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing."

Herman Melville "Redburn"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."

John J. Plomp

Family and Loneliness

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Albert Camus "Notebooks"

Beauty and Ugliness

Manners and Ethics

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

William Somerset Maugham "Cakes and Ale"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

Robert A. Heinlein

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You may delay, but Time will not."

Benjamin Franklin

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

Maya Angelou

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

Abraham Lincoln

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Mary Pickford

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."

Mahatma Gandhi

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Various

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

Sam Levenson

Defeates and Mistakes

Education

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

Jim Rohn

Human

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

Pablo Picasso

Question and Problem

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

Pearl Bailey

Human

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have."

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Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

Harper Lee

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy and Sadness

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You should be the change that you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

John Ruskin

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

Zig Ziglar

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?"

Rumi

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

Colette-Sidonie-Gabrielle

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Authority, Government

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joseph Joubert

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good."

Pat Bradley

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You'll catch a liar before you'll catch a cripple."

Catalan Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)