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"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. "

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The Father Brown Mystery Series"

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

Groucho Marx

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny."

Simone Weil "Lectures in philosophy"

Authority, Government

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."

Bert Leston Taylor "The So-Called Human Race"

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."

Karl Kraus

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

St. Augustine of Hippo

Authority, Government

Justice

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I'll trade wisdom for youth any day."

Brad Pitt Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

Charles Dickens "Martin Chuzzlewit"

Justice

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I"."

Alexis de Tocqueville

Envy

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

Frank Herbert

Trust

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character."

Horace

Human

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Pearl Buck "What America Means to Me"

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson letter to John Taylor

Richness and Money

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts."

Franco Zeffirelli

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

Edgar Degas

Art and Culture

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding."

William Shakespeare "Coriolanus"

Anger

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "Notes on the Novel"

Talent and Genius

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

John Shirley

Time and Passing

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham Speech to the House of Commons

Education

Human

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"History is statistics in a state of progression; statistics is history at a stand."

Ludwig Schlozer

History and Nations

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."

Kenneth Tynan

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State."

Albert Camus "The Rebel"

Authority, Government

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Most women are not so young as they are painted."

Sir Max Beerbohm

Woman and Man

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance."

Click if you know the author

Authority, Government

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Conscience: keeps more people awake than coffee."

Click if you know the author

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."

Joseph Addison "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Trust

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads."

Erica Jong

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

Ambrose Bierce

History and Nations

Peace and War

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God and Religion

Question and Problem

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

Werner Herzog

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens

Love

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

Ogden Nash

Marriage

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart."

Chris Evert

Success and Fame

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict."

Herbert Hoover

Marriage

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover."

Henri Poincare

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

Bette Davis

Marriage

Richness and Money

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death is the station, where we have to change to the next train. The appearance of the vehicle is changed, but our journey continues."

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup."

Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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)

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I write to reach eternity."

James Jones

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

Carl Gustav Jung

Love

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

Dylan Thomas

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. "

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny."

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."

"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

"I'll trade wisdom for youth any day."

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

"Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air."

"Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I"."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character."

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts."

"Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding."

"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."

"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

"History is statistics in a state of progression; statistics is history at a stand."

"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State."

"Most women are not so young as they are painted."

"After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance."

"You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

"Conscience: keeps more people awake than coffee."

"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads."

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

"We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers."

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

"If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart."

"Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict."

"It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"Death is the station, where we have to change to the next train. The appearance of the vehicle is changed, but our journey continues."

"Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup."

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

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

"I write to reach eternity."

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

"Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding."