All Quotes and Proverbs

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Babe Ruth

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

Mignon McLaughin "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little."

Marvin Traub

Happiness

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."

Betty Ford "The Last Word"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's never just a game when you're winning."

George Carlin

Sports

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 8)

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

Roger Federer

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."

Jackie Mason

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. "

William Somerset Maugham "Of Human Bondage"

Defeates and Mistakes

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

Carol Green "House M.D." - "Adverse Events"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Science and Technology

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It's not a color of skin that should separate people, but a thickness."

Lidia Jasinska

Human

Justice

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It's not down on any map. True places never are."

Herman Melville

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's not money that brings happiness, it's lots of money."

Russian Proverbs

Happiness

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Woody Allen

Life and Death

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's often not what we say that hurts, but what we don't say."

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Oration and Silence

Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

Malcolm Forbes

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!"

Gilda Radner

Joy and Sadness

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Italy is a poor country full of rich people."

Richard Gardner

History and Nations

Richness and Money

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It`s not the voting that`s democracy, it`s the counting."

Tom Stoppard "Jumpers"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Françoise Sagan "A Certain Smile"

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief."

Franz Grillparzer "Poems"

Anger

Envy

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

Erica Jong "Fear of Flying"

Envy

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Envy

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity."

Margaret Mead

Envy

Love

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Jealousy is the injured lover's hell."

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Envy

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Envy

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Jesus did not come to make God's love possible, but to make God's love visible."

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God and Religion

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Jesus paid a debt he didn't owe because we had a debt we couldn't pay."

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God and Religion

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

Mikhail Gorbachev

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Matthew Arnold

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

Oscar Wilde

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. "

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The Father Brown Mystery Series"

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions."

Kazimierz Matan

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours."

English Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."

Mahatma Gandhi

Joy and Sadness

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

Voltaire

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven."

Jesus Christ Luke 6:37-38

God and Religion

Justice

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

Buddha

God and Religion

Human

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future."

Elie Wiesel "Hope, Despair, and Memory"

Dreams and Desires

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else."

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

Albert Schweitzer

Egoism

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing."

Elias Canetti "Crowds and Power"

Justice

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

William Ewart Gladstone

Justice

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace."

Barbara Hall

Justice

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself."

John Galsworthy

Justice

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)