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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Health and Alcohol

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Genius lasts longer than beauty."

Oscar Wilde

Beauty and Ugliness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

Oscar Wilde

Intellect, Judgement

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."

William Jennings Bryan

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

Tom Stoppard

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."

Lenny Bruce "The Essential Lenny Bruce"

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."

William Gibson

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls."

John Paul II

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others."

Ronald Reagan

Life and Death

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason."

Edward Coke

Intellect, Judgement

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

Human

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors, to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."

Simone Weil "The Need for Roots"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."

Angela Carter "Wise Children"

Egoism

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them."

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Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave."

George Bernard Shaw "Misalliance"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Treat anger like gold. Spend it wisely or not at all."

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Anger

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man is truly ethical only when [...] he tears no leaf from a tree, plucks no flower, and takes care to crush no insects."

Albert Schweitzer "Philosophy of Civilization"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."

Robert J. Shiller "Irrational Exuberance"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The essential function of art is moral. [...] But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."

David Herbert Lawrence

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

Herman Melville "The Problem of Socrates"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."

Steve Jobs

Life and Death

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."

Nancy Astor

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God."

Steve Dow

God and Religion

Peace and War

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."

Robert Bresson

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When you are solving a problem, don't worry. Now, after you have solved the problem, then that's the time to worry."

Richard Feynman

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."

P.J. O`Rourke

Manners and Ethics

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."

James A. Garfield

Authority, Government

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Egoism

Human

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portugues"

Love

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."

Jorge Luis Borges

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The law often allows what honor forbids."

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never let your mom comb your hair when she's mad at your dad!"

Leo Anthony Gallagher (showing his bald head)

Anger

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."

Benjamin Franklin

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Victor Borge

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"[...] only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal."

Tennessee Williams

Loyalty and Betrayal

Trust

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

Victor Frankl

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art."

John Ruskin "St. Mark's Rest"

Art and Culture

History and Nations

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)