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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

Bertrand Russell

Peace and War

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there."

Elsie de Wolfe "The House in Good Taste"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light."

George Bernard Shaw "The Doctor's Dilemma"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

Simone Weil

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it."

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Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

Lev Tolstoy

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity."

Khalil Gibran

Marriage

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice."

Simone Weil

Justice

Love

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A forest bird never wants a cage."

Henrik Ibsen "The Master Builder"

Freedom and Servitude

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Sin and Conscience

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."

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Family and Loneliness

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."

Michel de Montaigne

Destiny and Fate

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

John Stuart Mill

Happiness

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)

"Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft."

Robert A. Heinlein

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain."

Robert A. Heinlein

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

George Santayana "The Life of Reason"

Happiness

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart."

Sacha Guitry

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Women... Women are lovely, but dogs are so much more loyal."

Sacha Guitry

Loyalty and Betrayal

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Letters and Social Aims"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

Helen Hayes "On Reflection"

Freedom and Servitude

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (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)

"It is not work that kills, but worry."

English Proverbs

Pain and Tears

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

Helen Hayes

Education

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Life and Death

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford

Friendship and Hostility

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

Henry Ford

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."

Herbert V. Prochnow

Family and Loneliness

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have."

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Robert Lee Frost

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine."

John A. O'Brien

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

Welsh Proverbs

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings"

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

God and Religion

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance."

H. G. Bohn

Anger

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The difference between a rebel and a patriot is wether who is in power."

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Patriotism

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A word is elegy to what it signifies."

Robert Hass "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

Alfred Hitchcock

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom."

André Malraux

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing."

Anatol France

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Richness and Money

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."

Tertullian

God and Religion

Richness and Money

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."

Henry Brougham

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."

Charles Baudelaire "My Heart Laid Bare"

God and Religion

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two."

John Cheever "John Cheever: The Journals"

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can cure the patient with food."

Hippocrates

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)