Various

"What worries you masters you."

Haddon W. Robinson

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Winston Churchill

Various

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

Jean Ingelow

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities."

Paul Eldridge "Maxims for a Modern Man"

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"[...] so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. "

Norton Juster "The Phantom Tollbooth"

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

Herbert Hoover

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke "The Lost Worlds of 2001"

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Some play at chess, some at cards, some at the Stock Exchange. I prefer to play at Cause and Effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson"

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

Laurence J. Peter

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Finding your passion is about connecting the dots between your head and your heart."

Maria Marsala

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A blind man should not judge of colours."

Scottish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."

Evan Esar

Memory

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

Khalil Gibran

Loyalty and Betrayal

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

Japanese Proverbs

Good and Evil

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Persian Proverbs

Beauty and Ugliness

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fear less, hope more,
eat less, chew more,
whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more,
hate less, love more,
and all good things will be yours."

Swedish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile."

Jewish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Do not push the river, it will flow by itself."

Polish Proverbs

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."

C. J. Cherry

Various

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

Henry David Thoreau

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Robert South

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."

Kevin Smith

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense."

John Ralston Saul "The Doubter's Companion"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Proverb - a definition ... The wisdom of many and the wit of one."

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

Erwin Rommel

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Various

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Stephen Leacock

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing is stranger to man than his own image."

Karel Čapek

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Katherine Hepburn

Success and Fame

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby?"

Ray Bradbury

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."

Ray Bradbury

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and"."

Arthur Stanley Eddington

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Nothing dies harder than a bad idea."

Julia Cameron

Various

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."

Al Capone

Law and Crime

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to hale."

Socrates

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

Henry David Thoreau

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Hands that help are holier than lips that pray."

Sathya Sai Baba

Good and Evil

Various

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

Horace Mann

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."

Click if you know the author

Various

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In the kingdom of blind men, the oneeyed is king."

Various Proverbs

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

English Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

Sandra Bullock

Joy and Sadness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Duty is ours; consequences are God's."

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

Various

"What worries you masters you."

"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

"Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities."

"[...] so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. "

"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"Some play at chess, some at cards, some at the Stock Exchange. I prefer to play at Cause and Effect."

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

"A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

"Finding your passion is about connecting the dots between your head and your heart."

"A blind man should not judge of colours."

"Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

"The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

"Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours."

"Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile."

"Do not push the river, it will flow by itself."

"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

"Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."

"Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense."

"Proverb - a definition ... The wisdom of many and the wit of one."

"Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

"Nothing is stranger to man than his own image."

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

"Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby?"

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and"."

"Nothing dies harder than a bad idea."

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to hale."

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

"Hands that help are holier than lips that pray."

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

"The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."

"In the kingdom of blind men, the oneeyed is king."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

"Duty is ours; consequences are God's."

"Fear less, hope more,
eat less, chew more,
whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more,
hate less, love more,
and all good things will be yours."