All Quotes and Proverbs

"Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Before the wedding we want to love. After the wedding we have to."

Kazimierz Matan

Love

Marriage

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Before you can break out of prison, you must realize that you are locked up."

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Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."

Joyce Brothers

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Beggars cant be choosers."

English Proverbs

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

Sandra Bullock

Joy and Sadness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."

Oscar Levant

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

James Bryant Conant

Nature and Animals

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals."

Ammon Hennessey

Peace and War

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem."

John Braine

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."

Mary McCarthy "Birds of America"

Human

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-tse

Courage and Fear

Love

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming."

Coleman Dowell "October Was Here"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people."

Alexander Theroux "An Adultery"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd."

Margaret Thatcher "The Downing Street Years"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."

Jorge Luis Borges

Family and Loneliness

Love

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."

Peter Ustinov

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see."

Edgar Allan Poe

Trust

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

William James

Life and Death

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

André Gide

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

Lin Yutang

Wisdom and Stupidity

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Best friends don't ask you: "Is something wrong?" Best friends ask you: "Whats wrong?"."

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Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

Aesop

Defeates and Mistakes

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "Notes on the Novel"

Talent and Genius

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Better late than never."

English Proverbs

Time and Passing

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Family and Loneliness

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Better single than sorry."

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Family and Loneliness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

Bob Marley

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Friendship and Hostility

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

Raoul Walsh "Klondike Annie"

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Beware of a silent dog and still water."

Various Proverbs

Various

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."

Benjamin Franklin

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Beware of women who read-they also think."

Anne Holt

Intellect, Judgement

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Napoleon Hill

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same."

Oscar Wilde

Marriage

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Heretics"

Anger

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Biography should be written by an acute enemy."

Arthur Balfour

Friendship and Hostility

Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."

Roseanne Barr

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love."

Turkish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals."

Willa Cather

Anger

Forgiveness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Jonathan Swift

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."

George Eliot

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter."

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Envy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Books are ... funny little portable pieces of thought."

Susan Sontag (Time, December 11, 1989)

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

Art and Culture

Education

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

Art and Culture

Education

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)