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"Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Optimism and Hope

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Faith is not faith until it's all you're holding on to."

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God and Religion

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

Bertrand Russell "What I Believe"

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Love

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."

Larry Gelbart

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul."

Edwin Whipple

Talent and Genius

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."

Samuel Lover

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance."

Paul Boese

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Offer forgiveness not for their sake, but for your own health."

Tristan J. Loo

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Hubert Humphrey

Authority, Government

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Five out of four people have problems with fractions."

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Education

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see."

Spanish Proverbs

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."

Anatol France "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard"

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

Francis Bacon

Happiness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Anita Brookner "The Misalliance"

Defeates and Mistakes

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Ernest Rutherford

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal."

Groucho Marx

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

Ray Evans "To Each His Own"

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God."

Rabindranath Tagore

Happiness

Human

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One good thing about my computer: it never asks why."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth is no road to fortune."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Richness and Money

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."

Henry David Thoreau

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Human

Love

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop "The Fox and the Goat"

Trust

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Graham Greene

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Education

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Only small minds are impressed by large numbers."

Arthur C. Clarke

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"So many men so many questions."

Terence

Human

Question and Problem

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "The Devil and the Good Lord"

Peace and War

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."

Edward de Bono

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me."

John Barrymore

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

Roger Federer

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The future is a better key to the present than the past."

James Graham Ballard

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."

Russell Baker

History and Nations

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Mark Twain

Nature and Animals

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."

Victor Frankl

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries."

Francis Picabia "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

Anthony J. D`Angelo "The College Blue Book"

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

Tom Stoppard

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Look at the photo, but paint from life: you're an artist not a camera."

Samantha Jordaan

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."

Napoleon Hill

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."

Aesop

Power and Weakness

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)