All Quotes and Proverbs

"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Various

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays"

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."

Maureen Dowd

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector."

Graham Greene

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

Henri Poincare "The Foundations of Science"

Destiny and Fate

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Chance makes our families, but choice makes our friends."

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Family and Loneliness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Chamfort "Maxims and Considerations"

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

George Santayana

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Henry Brooks Adams "The Education of Henry Adams"

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

Henry Brooks Adams "The Education of Henry Adams"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

James A. Michener

Various

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Abraham Lincoln "Lincoln's Own Stories"

Human

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

George Santayana "The Life of Reason"

Happiness

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us."

Horace Mann

Human

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody

Human

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

Evan Esar

Human

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

Charles Dickens "Martin Chuzzlewit"

Justice

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller

Good and Evil

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Charity begins at home."

English Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Good and Evil

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Chasing happiness all the time we run away from the one we have already found."

Agnieszka Lisak

Happiness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."

William Golding

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need do to lose weight is to take a bath."

Richard S. Zera

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Children are ambassadors from another dimension and should be treated with diplomatic courtesy."

Irving Fiske

Family and Loneliness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."

Herbert Hoover

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

Sophocles

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."

Peter Ustinov

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

Oscar Wilde

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."

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Family and Loneliness

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."

English Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life."

Confucius

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."

English Proverbs

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

Francis Bacon

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Jerry Garcia

Good and Evil

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Christians are made, not born."

Tertullian "Apologeticus"

God and Religion

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members."

Archbishop William Temple

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

Roman Polański

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."

Samuel Lover

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Cities are the abyss of the human species."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Pain and Tears

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual."

Angela Carter

Various

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

Werner Herzog

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Leaves from a Notebook"

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."

Aldous Huxley "Eyeless in Gaza"

Health and Alcohol

Human

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)