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"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)

"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)

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Phyllis Diller

Family and Loneliness

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)

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."

Will Rogers

Envy

Richness and Money

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)

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

Edmund Burke

Patriotism

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)

"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)

"Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

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Memory

Richness and Money

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)

"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)

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone De Beauvoir "The Second Sex"

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."

Henry David Thoreau

Truth and Falsity

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)

"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)

"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

Simone Weil

God and Religion

Life and Death

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)

"God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

God and Religion

Work and Laziness

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)

"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love."

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge, Ignorance

Love

Trust

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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)

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

Mark Twain

Forgiveness

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)

"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)

"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)

"Never confuse movement with action."

Ernest Hemingway

Various

Rating: 3.86 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, and the most patient of teachers."

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Art and Culture

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 8)

"A smile is a curve that sets things straight."

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Joy and Sadness

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 8)

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

Henry David Thoreau

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"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)

"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)

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Dag Hammarskjöld

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

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)

"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)

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."

Samuel Goldwyn

Law and Crime

Richness and Money

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)

"The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory."

George Savile

Memory

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)

"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)

"Time is the only critic without ambition."

John Steinbeck

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

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)

"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

James Graham Ballard

Freedom and Servitude

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)