All Quotes and Proverbs

"Even though a marriage is made in heaven, the maintenance work has to be done here on earth!"

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Marriage

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn."

Frank A. Clark

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "Black Orpheus"

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity."

Rabindranath Tagore

Family and Loneliness

Human

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every country has the government it deserves."

Joseph de Maistre "Lettres et Opuscules Inedits"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal."

St. Jerome

Human

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Elias Canetti "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Defeates and Mistakes

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every dog is valiant at his own door."

English Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause."

Eric Hoffer

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."

Gérard De Nerval

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau "Walden"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Lewis Mumford "The Brown Decades"

Friendship and Hostility

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every girl should use what mother nature gives her before father time takes it away."

Laurence J. Peter

Woman and Man

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every good friend once was a stranger."

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Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."

Guy de Maupassant

Authority, Government

Peace and War

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

Roger Ebert

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography."

Oscar Wilde

Loyalty and Betrayal

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Pearl Buck "What America Means to Me"

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense."

John Leonard

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."

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Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft."

Robert A. Heinlein

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every lover is a soldier."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) "Amores"

Love

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world."

Cesare Pavese

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every man dies; not every man really lives."

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Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

Henry Miller

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

Martin Heidegger

Family and Loneliness

Human

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

Voltaire "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man is his own hell."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient."

Henry Miller

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."

Khalil Gibran

Reality and Imagination

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Iris Murdoch "The Message to the Planet"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

Abraham Lincoln

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Education

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Jean Anouilh "The Lark"

God and Religion

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

William Hazlitt "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

John Updike "Couples"

Marriage

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."

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Time and Passing

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct."

Arthur Schopenhauer

History and Nations

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."

Jonathan Swift

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)