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"We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police."

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Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle."

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Youth and Age

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."

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Rating: 6.91 (Number of Voters: 11)

"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it."

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Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Soft words are hard arguments."

Thomas Fuller

Various

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head."

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Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement."

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Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Do's and don'ts influence wills and won'ts."

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Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Richness and Money

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Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."

Herbert V. Prochnow

Family and Loneliness

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Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Mahatma Gandhi

Anger

Various

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist."

Franklin P. Jones

Various

Rating: 6.86 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

T.S. Eliot

Authority, Government

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Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Khalil Gibran

Various

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Richness and Money

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Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Tradition is a guide not a jailer."

William Somerset Maugham

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

Courage and Fear

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Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."

Stephen Leacock

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

Mao Zedong

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Orthodoxy"

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient."

George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island"

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

Harry S. Truman

Various

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words."

Samuel Butler

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."

Norman Mailer "Cannibals and Christians"

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Norman Mailer

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Biography should be written by an acute enemy."

Arthur Balfour

Friendship and Hostility

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Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Thomas Szasz "The Second Sin"

Various

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

George Santayana "Life of Reason"

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think [...] and I can't prevent myself from thinking."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "Nausea"

Human

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Bertrand Russell

Sin and Conscience

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Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Various

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Noise, n. A stench in the ear. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization."

Ambrose Bierce

Various

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."

Fred Allen

Success and Fame

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Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."

Fred Allen

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Everybody's business is nobody's business."

Daniel Defoe (title of his pamphlet)

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done."

William Shakespeare "Richard II"

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Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Various

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"On Valentine's Day even most healthful will get artificial heart. "

Lidia Jasinska

Various

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Lack of ideas is a most general plagiarism."

Lidia Jasinska

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The first impression is a well remembered gift."

Lidia Jasinska

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

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Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Depression is anger without enthusiasm."

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Anger

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Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. "

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

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Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Henry Louis Mencken

Various

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

Mahatma Gandhi

Life and Death

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Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)