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"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

Paul Klee

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."

Mata Hari

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

Rollo May

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world."

Harry S. Truman

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Gray is a cover, which hides the colors."

Kazimierz Matan

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."

Danish Proverbs

Art and Culture

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity."

Ansel Adams

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein

Oration and Silence

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Greed is the mother of all sins."

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Richness and Money

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"May God have mercy upon my enemies; they will need it."

George S. Patton

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."

Karl Kraus

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

Lewis Mumford

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

Richard Feynman

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

Jimmy Carter

Justice

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do."

Sathya Sai Baba

Happiness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."

English Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Le Petit Prince"

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"One man's folly is another man's wife."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Loyalty and Betrayal

Marriage

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"To secure peace is to prepare for war."

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace and War

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

Golda Meir

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgement to hold their tongues."

Jean de La Bruyere

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors."

Mignon McLaughin "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Health and Alcohol

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A brave man dies but once, a coward many times."

Native American Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

C. Northcote Parkinson

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Robert Lee Frost

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Thomas Gray "Poetical Works"

Life and Death

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books."

T. E. Lawrence

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on."

Jane Wagner "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [...]"

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When angry count four; when very angry, swear."

Mark Twain

Anger

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

Charles Dickens "Martin Chuzzlewit"

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God."

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

God and Religion

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."

Cyril Connolly "Enemies of Promise"

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

Upton Sinclair

Law and Crime

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

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Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."

William Somerset Maugham "The Moon and Sixpence"

Forgiveness

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

William Somerset Maugham "Cakes and Ale"

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

Joseph Stalin

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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)

"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."

William Somerset Maugham

Destiny and Fate

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)