All Quotes and Proverbs

"Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."

Aldous Huxley "Grey Eminence"

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good is only beauty put into practice."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Beauty and Ugliness

God and Religion

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

Barry LePatner

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."

Jonathan Swift

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Clarence Thomas

Education

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII

Good and Evil

Human

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. "

Sir Thomas Beecham

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

William Saroyan

Defeates and Mistakes

Good and Evil

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."

Cesare Lombroso

Intellect, Judgement

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."

Malcolm Muggeridge

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Edith Sitwell "The Last Years of a Rebel"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."

Karl Popper

Life and Death

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."

Thomas Jefferson

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Anita Brookner "Hotel du Lac"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it."

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

Good and Evil

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."

George Eliot "Daniel Deronda"

Manners and Ethics

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."

Earl Wilson

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

Thomas Jefferson

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."

Bertrand Russell

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have."

P.J. O`Rourke

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."

Henry Louis Mencken "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"

Authority, Government

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

Lev Tolstoy

Authority, Government

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

John Updike "Buchanan Dying"

Authority, Government

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Ronald Reagan

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."

Chester Bowles

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."

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

Authority, Government

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government: a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."

Voltaire "Voltaire's Notebooks"

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Optimism and Hope

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

Lydia Maria Child

Manners and Ethics

Memory

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Gravity always wins."

Dolly Parton

Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Gray hair is God's graffiti."

Bill Cosby

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Gray is a cover, which hides the colors."

Kazimierz Matan

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Great artists do not copy what they see, but what they desire."

Théophile Gautier "The Golden Fleece"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Great artists have no country."

Alfred de Musset

Art and Culture

Patriotism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."

Dean Gooderham Acheson

History and Nations

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Great causes and little men go ill together."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Human

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great hopes make great man."

English Proverbs

Optimism and Hope

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

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Dreams and Desires

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."

Sir Thomas Beecham

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art."

John Ruskin "St. Mark's Rest"

Art and Culture

History and Nations

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz

Health and Alcohol

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."

Carl Gustav Jung

Human

Talent and Genius

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Anita Brookner

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Talent and Genius

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)