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"He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."

Don Juan Manuel

Egoism

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter."

Fulton John Sheen "Those Mysterious Priests"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Human

Power and Weakness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man."

Joseph Joubert

Marriage

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Alexander Woollcott

Health and Alcohol

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Marriage is a bad proposition, half end in divorce, and the other half end in death."

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Marriage

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."

Winston Churchill (on America)

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."

Robert A. Heinlein

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

William Faulkner

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

Henry Miller

Destiny and Fate

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Edmund Burke

Patriotism

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth exists; only lies are invented."

Georges Braque

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All diseases run into one: old age."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."

Amiri Baraka

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No rules for success will work if you don't."

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Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis "That Hideous Strength"

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!"

Logan Pearsall Smith "Afterthoughts"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Even though a marriage is made in heaven, the maintenance work has to be done here on earth!"

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Marriage

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship and Hostility

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

Clive Staples Lewis

God and Religion

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."

John Osborne "The Hotel in Amsterdam"

Trust

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

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Memory

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

André Bazin "What is Cinema?"

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend."

Menander "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"People who live outside a society are the ones who can see how it works."

Christopher Rice "A Density of Souls"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

H. G. Bohn

Normality and Madness

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

Edmund Burke

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."

Henry Kissinger

Peace and War

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Books are ... funny little portable pieces of thought."

Susan Sontag (Time, December 11, 1989)

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"What betrays us most often is neither our friends nor foes but our own tongue."

Agnieszka Lisak

Loyalty and Betrayal

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."

Robert Cody

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

Théophile Gautier

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Mark Twain

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Never confuse movement with action."

Ernest Hemingway

Various

Rating: 3.86 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

Henry David Thoreau

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good."

Helen Keller "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Good and Evil

Happiness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Will Rogers "Illiterate Digest"

Egoism

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."

Levi-Strauss-Claude

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse."

Henry David Thoreau "Journals"

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Carl Gustav Jung

Health and Alcohol

Human

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Dreams and Desires

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."

Ken Dodd

Marriage

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good and Evil

Justice

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

William James

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)