All Quotes and Proverbs

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

Lev Tolstoy

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Henry Louis Mencken

God and Religion

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Richness and Money

Trust

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Put your hand on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

Albert Einstein

Various

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Quack, n. A murderer without a license."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

Willa A. Foster

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Anger

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure."

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Various

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear."

Ihab Hassan "The Right Promethean Fire"

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Radical: Anyone whose opinion differs from ours."

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Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

John Updike "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Rain is the best policeman."

police motto

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Henry David Thoreau

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Angela Carter

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

Edmund Burke

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills."

Soichiro Honda

Happiness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Anita Brookner

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Realists suffer more because they realize more reasons for suffering."

Kazimierz Matan

Pain and Tears

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Reality is a poor substitute for my dreams."

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Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Reality is for people who lack imagination."

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Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on."

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Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."

Jane Wagner

Pain and Tears

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

John Lennon

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

John Lennon

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason and love are sworn enemies."

Pierre Corneille

Intellect, Judgement

Love

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Reason can never prove the existence of God."

Immanuel Kant

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason."

Edward Coke

Intellect, Judgement

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."

Rumi

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities."

Paul Eldridge "Maxims for a Modern Man"

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

Josh Billings

Defeates and Mistakes

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Reason, vi. To weigh probabilities in the scales of desire."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

Horace

Happiness

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

Albert Einstein

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality."

Albert Einstein

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

Willa Cather

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity."

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Religion differs from magic in that it is not concerned with control or manipulation of the powers confronted. Rather it means submission to, trust in, and adoration of, what is apprehended as the divine nature of ultimate reality."

Joachim Wach "The Comparative Study of Religions"

God and Religion

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."

Richard Feynman

God and Religion

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Religion is a great force: the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours."

George Bernard Shaw "Getting Married"

God and Religion

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)