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"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)

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Baruch Spinoza "Ethics"

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. "

Samuel Butler

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

Success and Fame

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

Herbert George Wells

History and Nations

Human

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."

Rabindranath Tagore

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."

Rabindranath Tagore

Good and Evil

Love

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men do no great things, only small things with great love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Human

Love

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

Ernest Hemingway "Death in the Afternoon"

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."

Thomas Jefferson

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Tradition is a guide not a jailer."

William Somerset Maugham

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Sir William Osler

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."

Dorothy Parker "Here Lies"

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I have no conscience, Adolf Hitler is my conscience. "

Hermann Göring

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child."

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Destiny and Fate

God and Religion

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

Albert Camus

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Common sense is not really so common."

Antoine Amauld "The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."

Henrik Tikkanen

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."

Henry Louis Mencken

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."

Maureen Murphy

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "Meditations on Quixote"

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Oscar Levant

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Brian W. Aldiss

Question and Problem

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

Sir William Osler "Science and Immortality"

Egoism

Human

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Matthew Arnold "Sohrab and Rustum"

Life and Death

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast."

Angela Carter "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Family and Loneliness

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

Howard Aiken

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

Thomas Carlyle

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."

English Proverbs

Marriage

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

Love

Nature and Animals

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone."

Neil Kurshan

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

Horace "Epistles"

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift "Thoughts On Various Subjects"

Friendship and Hostility

God and Religion

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

Robert A. Heinlein

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target."

Homer Adkins

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is the only lesson, other lessons are only to make you learn this one lesson."

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Education

Life and Death

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."

Josh Billings

Oration and Silence

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

Robert A. Heinlein

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

William Hazlitt

History and Nations

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on."

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Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it."

Dorothy Parker

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

Fran Lebowitz

Family and Loneliness

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

William James

God and Religion

Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Groucho Marx

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do, they might tell you something you don't want to hear."

Joseph Delaney "The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch"

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

"A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. "

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

"A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."

"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."

"Men do no great things, only small things with great love."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."

"Tradition is a guide not a jailer."

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

"Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."

"I have no conscience, Adolf Hitler is my conscience. "

"Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child."

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Common sense is not really so common."

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."

"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."

"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

"Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast."

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

"Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."

"Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone."

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

"Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target."

"Life is the only lesson, other lessons are only to make you learn this one lesson.﻿"

"I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."

"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

"Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on."

"If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it."

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do, they might tell you something you don't want to hear."

"Life is the only lesson, other lessons are only to make you learn this one lesson."