All Quotes and Proverbs

"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."

Saul Bellow

Love

"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."

Terence "Eunuchus"

Oration and Silence

Various

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

Alfred Hitchcock

Art and Culture

God and Religion

"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires."

Benjamin Franklin

Health and Alcohol

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."

Voltaire "Philosophical Dictionary"

Authority, Government

Richness and Money

"In God we trust. All others pay cash."

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Trust

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

Amiel-Henri-Frederic

Freedom and Servitude

Health and Alcohol

"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."

Stefan Zweig "Stellar Moments in Human History"

History and Nations

Intellect, Judgement

"In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk."

Rita Rudner

Marriage

"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

Ben-Gurion-David

History and Nations

Reality and Imagination

"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Egoism

Envy

"In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."

Clive Staples Lewis "God In The Dock"

Good and Evil

Human

Nature and Animals

"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."

Immanuel Kant

Manners and Ethics

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

Anthony Robbins

Life and Death

"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."

John Osborne "Tom Jones"

Love

Various

"In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received."

Eleanor Farjeon

Love

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal "De l'Amour"

Love

Memory

"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage."

Thomas De Quincey "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"

Sin and Conscience

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

Johann von Neumann

Science and Technology

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

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Sin and Conscience

"In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Manners and Ethics

"In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can."

Maurice Baring

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

"In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Mahatma Gandhi

Good and Evil

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams

Various

Work and Laziness

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Nature and Animals

"In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed."

Albert Einstein "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Authority, Government

Truth and Falsity

"In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life."

Rabindranath Tagore

Life and Death

"In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."

Herodotus

Life and Death

Peace and War

"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Work and Laziness

"In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously."

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Politics and Diplomacy

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

C. Northcote Parkinson

Politics and Diplomacy

"In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves."

R. A. Butler

Politics and Diplomacy

"In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme."

Roy Hattersley

Politics and Diplomacy

"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."

John Churton Collins

Friendship and Hostility

"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

Yakov Smirnoff

Authority, Government

History and Nations

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."

Federico García Lorca

Life and Death

"In summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams

Joy and Sadness

Nature and Animals

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

St. Augustine of Hippo

Authority, Government

Justice

"In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Life and Death

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams

Reality and Imagination

Various

"In the beginning, God made the Heaven and Earth. The rest was Made in China."

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Various

Wit and Humor

"In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship."

Jean Marzollo "Your Maternity Leave"

Family and Loneliness

Marriage

"In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress."

Dutch Proverbs

Sin and Conscience

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

Joy and Sadness

Power and Weakness