All Quotes and Proverbs

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"People who live outside a society are the ones who can see how it works."

Christopher Rice "A Density of Souls"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

Leo J. Burke

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Ogden Nash

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."

Carl Gustav Jung

Sin and Conscience

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes."

Wilbur N. Nesbit

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Rating: 2.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."

R. G. Collingwood "Speculum Mentis"

Freedom and Servitude

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Perfection is a road, not a destination."

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Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one."

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Various

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

Iris Murdoch "The Message to the Planet"

Human

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me."

African Proverbs

Love

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Colin Powell

Optimism and Hope

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

Human

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."

Laurette Taylor

Beauty and Ugliness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting."

Leonardo da Vinci

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

Golda Meir

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery."

John Ralston Saul "The Doubter's Companion"

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Pessimist's definition of an Optimist: Someone who knows today is so bad, tomorrow has just got to be better."

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Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Pessimist: One who complains about the noise when opporuntiy knocks."

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Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."

Elias Canetti "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Pessimists are Optimists with experience."

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Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

James Baldwin "A Dialogue"

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida (Marie Louise De La Ramée) "Wisdom, Wit and Pathos"

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion."

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

Plato "Theatetus"

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Philosophy begins with wonder."

Socrates

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

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

Egoism

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life."

Miguel de Unamuno

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Good and Evil

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"

Iris Murdoch "The Book and the Brotherhood"

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."

Chamfort "Maxims and Considerations"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

André Bazin "What is Cinema?"

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Physical prowess is for cowards; a little pain builds character."

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Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

George Bernard Shaw "Getting Married"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Physicians are like Kings - They brook no contradiction."

John Webster

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

Richard Feynman

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is."

Richard Feynman

Love

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.05 (Number of Voters: 19)

"Planning lies with men; success lies with Heaven."

Chinese Proverbs

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Plans are useless but planning is indispensable."

Dwight David Eisenhower

Various

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle

Joy and Sadness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Defence of Poetry"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)