"In violence, we forget who we are."

Mary McCarthy "On the Contrary"

Human

Justice

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."

Dean Martin

Health and Alcohol

"Wisdom goes not always by years."

Catalan Proverbs

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

"Love: the only game that two can play and both can win."

Eva Gabor

Love

Sports

"Archeologist: someone whose career lies in ruins."

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Science and Technology

"Time is what a clock measures."

Albert Einstein

Time and Passing

"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Human

"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"

Fran Lebowitz

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible."

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God and Religion

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Forgiveness

Friendship and Hostility

"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."

Satchel Paige

Youth and Age

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Family and Loneliness

"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."

Vincent Van Gogh

Youth and Age

"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Family and Loneliness

Normality and Madness

"It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges."

John Maynard Keynes

Richness and Money

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

Ali-ibn-Abi-Talib

Friendship and Hostility

"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Truth and Falsity

"Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Envy

"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."

Voltaire "Voltaire's Notebooks"

Authority, Government

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Where liberty dwells there is my country."

Latin Proverbs

Freedom and Servitude

Patriotism

"Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."

Roseanne Barr

Family and Loneliness

"Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen."

Uta Hagen "Respect for Acting"

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem De Kooning

Art and Culture

Various

"Planning lies with men; success lies with Heaven."

Chinese Proverbs

Success and Fame

"It is a trait of fools to perceive the faults of others but not their own."

Marcus Tullius Cicero "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

Rose Tremain

Life and Death

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

Courage and Fear

Reality and Imagination

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Benjamin Disraeli

History and Nations

Human

"Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Human

Science and Technology

"Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."

Spanish Proverbs

Education

"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold."

Alexander Pope "Imitations of Horace"

Art and Culture

Youth and Age

"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."

William Golding

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

"Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

"Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Courage and Fear

Joy and Sadness

"What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."

Cindy Gardner

Health and Alcohol

Marriage

"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

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Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Herbert Hoover

Time and Passing

"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "Being and Nothingness"

Various

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."

Iris Murdoch

Reality and Imagination

"By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim, and I am a Hindu only by accident of birth."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Human

Patriotism

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde

Joy and Sadness

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."

Albert Einstein

Life and Death

Sorrow and Nostalgia

"If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot."

Various Proverbs

Anger

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

Thomas Jefferson

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

"So long as there are men there will be wars."

Albert Einstein

Human

Peace and War