Various

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Human

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Aaron Levenstein

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse."

Henry David Thoreau "Journals"

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last."

Charles de Gaulle

Politics and Diplomacy

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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)

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."

Maya Angelou

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."

John Barrymore

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

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Human

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Torquato Tasso"

Human

Talent and Genius

Various

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A bartender is just a chemist with a limited inventory."

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Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A Camel is a horse designed by a committee."

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Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Thoughts too deep to be expressed. And too strong to be suppressed."

George Wither "Mistress of Philarete"

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Our virtues and failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla (attributed)

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best way out is always through."

Robert Lee Frost

Various

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more."

Michel de Montaigne "Essays"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?"

Judith Martin (Miss Manners) "Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly ..."

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them."

Joseph Henry

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."

Peter De Vries

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one."

James Baldwin

Human

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The girl who can't dance says the band can't play."

Jewish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

Norman Vincent Peale

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Rex Stout "Death Of A Doxy"

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there."

Mickey Friedman

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It's not down on any map. True places never are."

Herman Melville

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

John Steinbeck "Travels With Charley: In Search of America"

Marriage

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

Carlo Goldoni "Pamela"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

History and Nations

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The most important thing about having goals is having one."

Geoffrey F. Abert

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from."

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Good and Evil

Peace and War

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"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)

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Journals"

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Art Buchwald (b. 1925), U.S. humorist

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

Coco Chanel "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

Louis Leo Holtz

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."

Winston Churchill (on America)

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "Being and Nothingness"

Various

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

William Golding "Pincher Martin"

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Chamfort "Maxims and Considerations"

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

Walt Disney

Various

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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)

"Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee."

Mason Cooley

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The world is a cow that is hard to milk [...]"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)