Various

"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

Charles de Gaulle

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem De Kooning

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

William Shakespeare "The Tempest"

Destiny and Fate

Various

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."

Truman Capote

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it."

Nora Ephron "Scribble Scrabble"

Family and Loneliness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

Desmond Morris "The Human Zoo"

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, First Series"

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was."

C. Northcote Parkinson

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything."

Don Marquis "The Rare Don Marquis"

Various

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Necessity has the face of a dog."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez "In Evil Hour"

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Peter Ustinov

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

William James

God and Religion

Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast."

Angela Carter "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Family and Loneliness

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

Mikhail Gorbachev

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Leaves from a Notebook"

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love."

Turkish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

Robert Orben

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

William James "The Letters of William James"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

Benjamin Disraeli (Speech on January 24, 1860)

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

George Santayana

Good and Evil

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."

Robert Runcie

God and Religion

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E. L. Doctorow

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong

Human

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A desert is a place without expectation."

Nadine Gordimer

Optimism and Hope

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong."

Tom Jaine

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

Alfred North Whitehead

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"This is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than sex."

Jackie Mason (about England)

Various

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."

Archimedes

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Françoise Sagan "A Certain Smile"

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."

Marshall McLuhan "Through the Vanishing Point"

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Rain is the best policeman."

police motto

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Cooking is just like religion. Rules don't no more make a cook than sermons make a saint."

Click if you know the author

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool."

Jane Wagner

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."

Denis Diderot "Essay on Merit and Virtue"

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Victor Borge

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any."

Margaret Halsey "With Malice Toward Some"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Revolt of the Masses"

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Various

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

John le Carré "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."

John Osborne "Tom Jones"

Love

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough."

Martin Amis "Einstein's Monsters"

Peace and War

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Francis Picabia

Defeates and Mistakes

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."

Francis Picabia

Various

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men do have emotions and are not afraid to show them."

Jane O`Reilly "The Girl I Left Behind"

Sports

Various

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 6)