All Quotes and Proverbs

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

Robert Fulghum

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't worry that there won't be a tomorrow, it's already tomorrow in Australia."

Charles Monroe Schulz

Time and Passing

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."

Jorge Luis Borges

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Doubt is the key of knowledge."

English Proverbs

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Drawing is putting a line around an idea."

Henri Matisse

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."

Joseph Joubert

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

William Dement

Dreams and Desires

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

Marsha Norman

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals."

Pierre De Beaumarchais "Le Mariage de Figaro"

Health and Alcohol

Human

Rating: 8.43 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca the Younger "Epistulae ad Lucilium"

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

Bertrand Russell "The Conquest of Happiness"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Duty is ours; consequences are God's."

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

Robert E. Lee

Manners and Ethics

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Each day, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Let us strive to make the finest investment we can."

Charles Swindoll

Family and Loneliness

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Human

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts."

Robert Musil

Human

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."

Rene Descartes

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together."

English Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

Edmund Burke

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

James Thurber "Fables for our Time"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college."

P.J. O`Rourke

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed."

Mahatma Gandhi

Egoism

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"East or West, Home is best."

English Proverbs

Patriotism

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."

Talmud (Babylonian)

Anger

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers."

Greek Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

Adelle Davis

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway."

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Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Econometrics have successfully predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions."

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Richness and Money

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."

Mark Twain "Mark Twain's Notebook"

Education

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."

Claus Moser

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

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Education

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 1.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

Karl Kraus

Education

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."

Laurence J. Peter

Education

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Oscar Wilde

Education

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

Daniel J. Boorstin

Education

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

William Butler Yeats

Education

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

Aristotle

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Education is the fountain that too few people drink from."

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Education

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

Socrates

Education

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."

Karl Kraus

Education

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught."

George Savile

Education

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)