All Quotes and Proverbs

"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

John Ralston Saul

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."

Galileo Galilei

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

Bertrand Russell "Mysticism and Logic"

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

Bertrand Russell "Philosophical Essays"

Beauty and Ugliness

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."

Karl Kraus

Marriage

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."

George Santayana "Life of Reason: Reason in Religion"

God and Religion

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"May God have mercy upon my enemies; they will need it."

George S. Patton

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."

Immanuel Kant

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery."

Francis Picabia

Human

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Maybe there is a beast.... maybe it's only us."

William Golding "Lord of the Flies"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

Aldous Huxley

Good and Evil

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool."

Bob Marley

Education

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side."

Bob Marley

God and Religion

Human

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Measure others' greatness not by the position they hold but by their ability to treat it with reserve."

Agnieszka Lisak

Human

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

Graham Greene

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Memories are like flagstones, time and distance work upon them like drops of acid."

Ugo Betti

Memory

Time and Passing

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die."

Samuel Butler

Memory

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Memory feeds imagination."

Amy Tan

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Memory is the thing you forget with."

Alexander Chase

Memory

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."

Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men are born equal but they are also born different."

Erich Fromm

Justice

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy"

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."

George Bernard Shaw "Misalliance"

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."

George Savile

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Kin Hubbard

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Happiness

Human

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men are what their mothers made them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men despise religion; they hate it and fear it is true."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

God and Religion

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Men do no great things, only small things with great love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Human

Love

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men do not change; they unmask themselves."

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Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."

Margaret Fuller

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Men give love to get sex, Women give sex to get love."

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Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier."

Henry Louis Mencken "Chrestomathy"

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men."

Francis Picabia

God and Religion

Human

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Men have become tools of their tools."

Henry David Thoreau

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Men love women because women are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn."

Guy Browning

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men make women happy who are already happy."

Lidia Jasinska

Happiness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Men may move mountains, but ideas move men."

Lois McMaster Bujold

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Winston Churchill

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Success and Fame

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

Bertrand Russell "Conquest of Happiness"

Happiness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Men willingly believe what they wish."

Julius Caesar

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)