All Quotes and Proverbs

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

Helen Keller "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Happiness

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

Albert Einstein

Happiness

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

Happiness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings."

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Happiness

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 5.14 (Number of Voters: 7)

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."

P.J. O`Rourke

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

Jean Ingelow

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison."

Francis Bacon

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

John Updike

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A hero is a man who does what he can."

Romain Rolland

Courage and Fear

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

History and Nations

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."

Henry Louis Mencken

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

Ian Fleming

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A hospital is no place to be sick."

Samuel Goldwyn

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

Margaret Fuller

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A hungry man is an angry man."

James Howell

Anger

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness."

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Freedom and Servitude

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood."

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Marriage

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 8)

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

John Steinbeck "Travels With Charley: In Search of America"

Marriage

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Robert Lee Frost

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A kind word never broke anyone's mouth."

Irish Proverbs

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A king is history's slave."

Lev Tolstoy "War and Peace"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know."

Mistinguett

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Ingrid Bergman

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Love

Reality and Imagination

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

Jane Austen

Happiness

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."

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Joy and Sadness

Optimism and Hope

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."

Henry Brougham

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. "

Mario Puzo "The Godfather"

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers."

Samuel Butler

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Joel Barker

Politics and Diplomacy

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A leader is one who does not care about his rank and role but remains always responsive to lead, shoulder responsibility, and achieve the goal in such a way that everyone, in and outside the team, respects him for touching their revered souls."

Anuj Somany

Authority, Government

Talent and Genius

Rating: 9.11 (Number of Voters: 9)

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way."

John C. Maxwell

Authority, Government

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one."

Guy de Maupassant

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?"

Emily Dickinson from her letter to James D. Clark

Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

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Family and Loneliness

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.43 (Number of Voters: 7)

"A library is thought in cold storage."

Lord Samuel

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A lie has no legs."

English Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A line is a dot that goes for a walk."

Paul Klee

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A literary woman's best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Chapters from a Life"

Art and Culture

Marriage

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

English Proverbs

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."

Fats Domino

Education

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

Doug Larson

Memory

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens

Love

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Society and Solitude"

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde

Happiness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)