All Quotes and Proverbs

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Life and Death

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. "

Ann Landers

Intellect, Judgement

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."

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Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The lottery: a tax on people who flunked math."

Monique Lloyd

Destiny and Fate

Richness and Money

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away."

Oscar Hammerstein

Love

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Justice

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt

Egoism

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Love

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Persian Proverbs

Beauty and Ugliness

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. "

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

Nature and Animals

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

Benjamin Disraeli "Henrieta Temple"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Love

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The majority is never right, unless it includes me."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Egoism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy."

Jean de La Bruyere "Les Caracteres"

Happiness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Napoleon Hill

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Courage and Fear

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

Francis Herbert Bradley "Aphorisms"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

Thomas Jefferson

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

William Faulkner

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."

Charles Baudelaire "My Heart Laid Bare"

God and Religion

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."

Douglas Everett

Education

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The meaning of life is to go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow will be a better day."

Charles Monroe Schulz

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Carl Gustav Jung

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The memory of bad quality lasts longer than the shock of high prices."

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Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness."

Marguerite Yourcenar "Memoirs of Hadrian"

Memory

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Orthodoxy"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Art and Antiquity"

Various

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth."

Chinese Proverbs

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now."

Nhat Hanh

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."

Martina Navratilova

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The moment you come into this world you begin to go out of it; your first breath is linked with your last."

Lloyd-Jones-Martyn "Romans: The Final Perseverance Of The Saints"

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."

George Bernard Shaw "Collected Letters"

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

Alphonse de Lamartine

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "Anti-Semite and Jew"

Good and Evil

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

Marshall McLuhan

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The more you reason the less you create."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The mortgage is still in our name but, increasingly, the house is theirs. One diaper, one vote."

Fred G. Gosman "How to Be a Happy Parent..."

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

James Thurber

Health and Alcohol

Marriage

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."

Benjamin Disraeli

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

Erasmus

Justice

Peace and War

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."

Ernest Hemingway

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Happiness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)