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"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

Bill Cosby

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle "Politics"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Music is the space between the notes."

Claude Debussy

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?"

Aldous Huxley "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"

Manners and Ethics

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

Bertrand Russell "The Conquest of Happiness"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon "The Advancement of Learning"

Education

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "Meditations on Quixote"

Good and Evil

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."

Denis Diderot "Essay on Merit and Virtue"

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

Rex Stout

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."

Roger Babson

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Peter Ustinov

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

Miguel de Unamuno "The Tragic Sense of Life"

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

Alfred North Whitehead

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

Will Rogers "Wit and Wisdom"

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

Charles de Gaulle

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Memory

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"And what should they know of England who only England know?"

Rudyard Kipling "The English Flag"

History and Nations

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."

Lillian Carter

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

Pearl Bailey

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority."

Edward Young "The Revenge"

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."

Sarah M. Grimke "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

E. L. Doctorow

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."

Franklin P. Jones

Manners and Ethics

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Opinions have greater power than strength of hands."

Sophocles

Manners and Ethics

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Jacob Bronowski

Education

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

Ros Gelderman

Memory

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

Chamfort

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Celine-Louis-Ferdinand

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle."

Darby Conley

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death."

Ludwig Borne

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

John Locke

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

J. K. Rowling

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?"

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

Louis Leo Holtz

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

Truman Capote

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good."

Henry Louis Mencken "Minority Report"

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?"

Judith Martin (Miss Manners) "Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly ..."

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In God we trust. All others pay cash."

sign in a bar

Trust

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Stupidity is generally it's own punishment."

Robert A. Heinlein

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Aaron Levenstein

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is a covered dish."

Swiss Proverbs

Marriage

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Happiness

Human

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"God invented chocolate, the devil added the calories."

Click if you know the author

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."

Click if you know the author

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"Music is the space between the notes."

"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable."

"If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?"

"Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

"The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times."

"And what should they know of England who only England know?"

"Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."

"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, Death joins us to the great majority."

"There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."

"Opinions have greater power than strength of hands."

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

"I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

"Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle."

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

"Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death."

"To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

"What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?"

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

"Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good."

"The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?"

"In God we trust. All others pay cash."

"Stupidity is generally it's own punishment."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

"Marriage is a covered dish."

"Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago."

"Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

"God invented chocolate, the devil added the calories."

"Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."

"Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority."