All Quotes and Proverbs

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

Lillian Hellman "The Little Foxes"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Cynicism is humour in ill health."

Herbert George Wells

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."

Scott Adams

Various

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."

Mark Twain

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music."

George Bernard Shaw

Art and Culture

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Danger is next neighbour to security."

English Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 3.14 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Danger past, God forgotten."

Various Proverbs

God and Religion

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."

Friedrich von Schiller

Defeates and Mistakes

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."

Marshall McLuhan "Through the Vanishing Point"

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding and understanding is not wisdom."

Clifford Stoll

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Dead fish go with the flow... but I'm not dead yet."

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Various

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Dear Jesus, Please help Mommy and Daddy. Take care of Brother and Me. And please God, take care of yourself cause if anything happens to you we are in big trouble. Amen."

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God and Religion

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the Wind"

Time and Passing

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death cancels all engagments."

Sir Max Beerbohm

Life and Death

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."

St. Ambrose "De bono mortis"

Justice

Life and Death

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

William Somerset Maugham

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death is life's way of telling you you're fired."

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Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life."

Amos Traver

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

Rabindranath Tagore

Life and Death

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

Plato "Laws"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

Epicurus

Life and Death

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope."

William Hazlitt

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Büchner "Leonce and Lena"

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Death is the station, where we have to change to the next train. The appearance of the vehicle is changed, but our journey continues."

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates

Life and Death

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Death pay all debts."

William Shakespeare "Henry IV"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."

Joseph Stalin

Life and Death

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death takes no bribes."

Benjamin Franklin

Life and Death

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."

Mark Twain "Mark Twain's Notebook"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."

Frank Herbert "Dune"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Peace and War

Various

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

Henry Louis Mencken

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

Alan Corenk

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Irving Kristol

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

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Authority, Government

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."

Laurence J. Peter

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

Henry Louis Mencken

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Henry Louis Mencken

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Politics and Diplomacy

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance."

Henry Louis Mencken

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."

Clement Attlee

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Authority, Government

Education

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Depression is anger without enthusiasm."

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Anger

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

All Quotes and Proverbs

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

"Cynicism is humour in ill health."

"Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching."

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."

"Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music."

"Danger is next neighbour to security."

"Danger past, God forgotten."

"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."

"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding and understanding is not wisdom."

"Dead fish go with the flow... but I'm not dead yet."

"Dear Jesus, Please help Mommy and Daddy. Take care of Brother and Me. And please God, take care of yourself cause if anything happens to you we are in big trouble. Amen."

"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

"Death cancels all engagments."

"Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

"Death is life's way of telling you you're fired."

"Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life."

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

"Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

"Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope."

"Death is the most blessed dream."

"Death is the station, where we have to change to the next train. The appearance of the vehicle is changed, but our journey continues."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"Death pay all debts."

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."

"Death takes no bribes."

"Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."

"Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."

"Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack."

"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

"Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance."

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Depression is anger without enthusiasm."

"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."