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"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

Erica Jong "Fear of Flying"

Envy

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

Oswald Chambers

God and Religion

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love is blind. Marriage is the eye-opener."

Pauline Thomason

Love

Marriage

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."

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Dreams and Desires

Love

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage - is an expensive way of getting your laundry done for free."

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Marriage

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."

Angela Carter "Expletives Deleted"

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Which of the photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow."

Imogen Cunningham

Various

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Authority, Government

Good and Evil

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L.P. (Leslie Poles) Hartley "The Go-Between"

Time and Passing

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Hell is different from purgatory - just a lack of exit doors."

Kazimierz Matan

Pain and Tears

Various

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The glass is not half-empty, it's just twice as big as it needs to be."

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Optimism and Hope

Various

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sex is a trap set by nature to ensure the survival of our species."

Kazimierz Matan

Human

Love

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

God and Religion

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

George MacDonald

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"He who has never hoped can never despair."

George Bernard Shaw "Caesar and Cleopatra"

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism."

George Eliot "Scenes of Clerical Life"

Friendship and Hostility

Nature and Animals

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

Gustave Flaubert

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."

Benjamin Haydon "Correspondence and Table Talk"

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Film music is like small lamp that you place below the screen to warm it."

Aaron Copland

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Babe Ruth

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."

Robert Lee Frost

Education

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."

David Reisman

Question and Problem

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass."

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Love

Time and Passing

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."

Karl Kraus

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Family and Loneliness

Love

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

Jean de La Bruyere

Life and Death

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."

Al Batt

Happiness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."

Robert A. Heinlein "Time Enough for Love"

Various

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time ripens all things. No man is born wise."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Time and Passing

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."

Francis Bacon

Memory

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Living with egoist is commiting suicide for the love."

Lidia Jasinska

Egoism

Love

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

Zig Ziglar

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Speak low if you speak love."

William Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing"

Love

Oration and Silence

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom and power bring responsibility."

Jawaharlal Nehru "A Tryst With Destiny"

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals."

Willa Cather

Anger

Forgiveness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to."

Harriet Lerner "The Dance of Anger"

Anger

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-these are the pillars of society."

Henrik Ibsen "Pillars of Society"

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."

Michael Pritchard

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

Sigmund Freud

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Emily Brontë

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken."

Eric Hoffer

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Facts without theory is trivia. Theory without facts is bullshit."

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Science and Technology

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."

Zora Neale Hurston "Dust Tracks on a Road"

Love

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks."

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Friendship and Hostility

Peace and War

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."

John J. Plomp

Family and Loneliness

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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