Various

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

Ann Landers

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."

Ken Dodd

Marriage

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic."

Christina Stead

Human

Various

Rating: 1.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Measure others' greatness not by the position they hold but by their ability to treat it with reserve."

Agnieszka Lisak

Human

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Stop following someone else's path, find your own."

Agnieszka Lisak

Human

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Willa A. Foster

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Umberto Eco

Intellect, Judgement

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."

Lily Tomlin

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."

Willa Cather "The Professor's House"

Human

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Valor is common but great souls are rare."

Bernard Joseph Saurin "Spartacus"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

William James

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

Will Rogers

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The darkest hour is just before the dawn."

Various Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."

Kurt Vonnegut

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create."

Charles Baudelaire "My Heart Laid Bare"

Happiness

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Willa Cather "Death Comes for the Archbishop"

Love

Various

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog!"

Click if you know the author

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

Good and Evil

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

Laurence J. Peter

Memory

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Guess if you can and choose if you dare."

Pierre Corneille "Héraclius"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote"

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."

Will Kommen

Various

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All places are distant from heaven alike."

Robert Burton

Happiness

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship and Hostility

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

Edmund Burke

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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)

"It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove."

Owen D. Young

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

Coco Chanel

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

Phyllis Diller

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."

Ebner-Eschenbach-Marie-von

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ronald E. Osborn

Education

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."

Margaret Thatcher

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

Ros Gelderman

Memory

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Edward Dahlberg

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

John Ralston Saul

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

Jim Rohn

Human

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "Notes from Underground"

Various

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."

Rudyard Kipling

Various

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character."

Horace

Human

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)