"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Love

"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."

Cesare Lombroso

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."

Kerry Thornley

Reality and Imagination

"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

"Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies."

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Truth and Falsity

"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

"Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience."

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Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Samantha Jordaan

Art and Culture

"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Courage and Fear

Human

"Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

"Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence."

Elias Canetti "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Success and Fame

"It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed."

George VI (Radio broadcast, September 23, 1940)

Human

Various

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

George Orwell

Human

"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder."

Thornton Wilder "Merchant of Yonkers"

Marriage

"Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it."

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

History and Nations

Justice

"Happiness is a good martini, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman... or a bad woman, depending on how much happiness you can stand."

George Burns

Happiness

Woman and Man

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

Aesop

Power and Weakness

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

Victor Frankl

Good and Evil

Human

"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sin and Conscience

"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."

Russell Baker

History and Nations

"The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

History and Nations

Peace and War

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, First Series"

Friendship and Hostility

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Lewis Mumford "The Brown Decades"

Friendship and Hostility

Youth and Age

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

Voltaire

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith

Nature and Animals

Success and Fame

"We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros."

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

"Land, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Various

"Life is the risk we cannot refuse."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Life and Death

"A literary woman's best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Chapters from a Life"

Art and Culture

Marriage

"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation."

Thornton Wilder "The Eighth Day"

Wit and Humor

"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

Mignon McLaughin

Various

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."

John Churton Collins

Friendship and Hostility

"Love is a smoke raised with the cloud of Sighs, a fire in a loving eye. When unhappy - sea lovers tears. What is more?'s Prudent madness. Bile stifling and sweet delicacy."

William Shakespeare

Love

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Law and Crime

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

Herbert George Wells

Health and Alcohol

Human

"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."

Peter Ustinov

Richness and Money

"A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart."

Rhonda Marlow

Joy and Sadness

"An open mind does not always require an open mouth."

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Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

"When the wine goes in, strange things come out."

Friedrich von Schiller "Wallenstein"

Health and Alcohol

"Man is a universe within himself."

Bob Marley

Human

"Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."

James L. Hymes, Jr. "Childhood"

Education

Sin and Conscience

"We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Truth and Falsity

"It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy."

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Happiness

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Various

Work and Laziness

"The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget."

John Morley

Memory

Politics and Diplomacy

"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Youth and Age

"Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

Erwin Rommel

Courage and Fear

Various

"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Manners and Ethics

Marriage