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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization."

Georges Clemenceau

History and Nations

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

Samuel Butler "The Way of All Flesh"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink."

English Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."

Raoul Vaneigem "The Revolution of Everyday Life"

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."

Jonathan Swift

Love

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If evolution was true, mothers would have more than two hands."

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Family and Loneliness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved."

André Malraux

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond."

Thomas Love Peacock

Marriage

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."

John Ruskin

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What is popular is not always right; what is right is not always popular."

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Manners and Ethics

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years."

Harry S. Truman

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Ezra Pound

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."

Boris Yeltsin

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You can only be young once but you can be immature forever."

Dave Barry

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle

Joy and Sadness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Some people take too much of vitamin "I"."

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Egoism

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We do not remember days; we remember moments."

Cesare Pavese "The Burning Brand Diaries: 1935-1950"

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."

Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

Henri Matisse

Happiness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."

Andy Warhol

Success and Fame

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

Benjamin Disraeli

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity