All Quotes and Proverbs

"The road to success is always under construction."

Lily Tomlin

Success and Fame

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle

Education

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

Jimmy Carter

Justice

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.59 (Number of Voters: 22)

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."

Kin Hubbard

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles flames; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Love

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Education

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."

Levi-Strauss-Claude

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession."

Albert Einstein

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."

Henny Youngman

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

Gail Sheehy

Authority, Government

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

Michele Shocked

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."

Voltaire

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw "Parents and Children"

Happiness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Youth and Age

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do."

Sathya Sai Baba

Happiness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

Francis Herbert Bradley "Aphorisms"

Dreams and Desires

Happiness

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

Bertrand Russell

Happiness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."

Al Batt

Happiness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

Benjamin Disraeli

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."

Jean Giraudoux

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people."

George Bernard Shaw

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he."

Karl Kraus

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Albert Einstein

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen."

Milan Kundera "Immortality"

Human

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Power and Weakness

Various

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Amicitia"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The shortest answer is doing."

English Proverbs

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The silence of a wise man is always meaningful."

Leo Strauss

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."

Rudyard Kipling "Plain Tales from the Hills"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models."

James Baldwin "Nobody Knows My Name"

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

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Anger

Human

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union."

Plato "Phaedrus"

Human

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures."

Franz Grillparzer "Notebooks and Diaries"

Art and Culture

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor."

Zora Neale Hurston "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Manners and Ethics

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-these are the pillars of society."

Henrik Ibsen "Pillars of Society"

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."

Michel de Montaigne

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Human

Power and Weakness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Milan Kundera "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"

Memory

Power and Weakness

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."

Charles Baudelaire

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

Thomas Szasz "The Second Sin"

Forgiveness

Memory

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

Edward Gibbon "Memoirs of My Life"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)