"Charity begins at home."

English Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Good and Evil

"A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

English Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

English Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

"What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?"

Kurt Vonnegut

Life and Death

Woman and Man

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Eric Hoffer

Dreams and Desires

Talent and Genius

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

English Proverbs

Richness and Money

Wisdom and Stupidity

"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

Rabindranath Tagore

Oration and Silence

Truth and Falsity

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

Mel Brooks

Wit and Humor

"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Truth and Falsity

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

Lauren Bacall

Reality and Imagination

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

Richard Bach

Truth and Falsity

"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now."

Nhat Hanh

Reality and Imagination

Various

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Niels Bohr

Truth and Falsity

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

Mahatma Gandhi

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

"Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line."

John Tillotson

Truth and Falsity

"Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers."

Benjamin Franklin

Loyalty and Betrayal

"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."

Rumi

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

"Instinct is the nose of the mind."

Madame De Girardin

Intellect, Judgement

"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."

Jimmy Carter

God and Religion

Life and Death

"War is organized murder, and nothing else."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Law and Crime

Peace and War

"Too many died. War isn’t worth one life."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Life and Death

Peace and War

"[...] politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Life and Death

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

"Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future."

Elie Wiesel "Hope, Despair, and Memory"

Dreams and Desires

Optimism and Hope

"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

Aleister Crowley "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Manners and Ethics

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

Mark Twain

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Power and Weakness

"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Sin and Conscience

"Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy."

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Happiness

"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Health and Alcohol

Love

"Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain, a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs - the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."

Mark Twain "Letters From the Earth"

Life and Death

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Defeates and Mistakes

Education

"The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!"

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Dreams and Desires

"If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

"The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed."

Albert Schweitzer

Various

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

"The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. "

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Nature and Animals

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Evan Esar

Woman and Man

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

Piet Hein

Question and Problem

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

Question and Problem

Reality and Imagination

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Success and Fame

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot

Courage and Fear

Various

"When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window."

English Proverbs

Love

Richness and Money

"There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time."

Peg Bracken

Health and Alcohol

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see."

James A. Michener

History and Nations

Various

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Art and Culture

Education

Human