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"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Irish Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress."

Dutch Proverbs

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Best friends don't ask you: "Is something wrong?" Best friends ask you: "Whats wrong?"."

Click if you know the author

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Oh, to be seventy again!"

Georges Clemenceau

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Chamfort "Maxims and Considerations"

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

Eugene Ionesco

Question and Problem

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men may move mountains, but ideas move men."

Lois McMaster Bujold

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."

Elizabeth Gaskell "Wives and Daughters"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use."

Ruth Gordon

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Knowledge is power, knowledge shared is power lost."

Aleister Crowley

Knowledge, Ignorance

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has."

John Maynard Keynes

Question and Problem

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."

Thomas Merton

Education

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Stephen Leacock

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity."

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

Winston Churchill

Time and Passing

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage and Fear

Talent and Genius

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace."

Milan Kundera

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college."

P.J. O`Rourke

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it."

Dianne Feinstein

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."

Yves Saint Laurent

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

Walter Bagehot "The English Constitution"

Power and Weakness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Aldous Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Education

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Defence of Poetry"

Art and Culture

Happiness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Optimism and Hope

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The shortest answer is doing."

English Proverbs

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best plan is no plan at all, then everything goes according to the plan."

Jacek Bukowski

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."

Floyd Dell

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."

Terence "Eunuchus"

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

Garrison Keillor

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To depend on a stranger, blindness in both eyes."

Malaysian Proverbs

Trust

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."

Jascha Heifetz

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."

English Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

Hans Hofmann

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female."

Moss Hart

Happiness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."

Henry Louis Mencken

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!"

Bulwer-Lytton-Edward

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein

God and Religion

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity."

Edmund Burke

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge, Ignorance

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)