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"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)

"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)

"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 eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Courage and Fear

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Michel de Montaigne

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Courage and Fear

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Family and Loneliness

God and Religion

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Click if you know the author

Truth and Falsity

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)

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

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Love

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."

Hansell B. Duckett

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Only small minds are impressed by large numbers."

Arthur C. Clarke

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

History and Nations

Justice

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Cesare Lombroso

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Winston Churchill

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

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)

"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)

"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)

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

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

George Orwell

Human

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Thornton Wilder "Merchant of Yonkers"

Marriage

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

God and Religion

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Erwin Rommel

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Lewis Mumford "The Brown Decades"

Friendship and Hostility

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Rhonda Marlow

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Voltaire

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John Morley

Memory

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

Mignon McLaughin

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros."

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Chapters from a Life"

Art and Culture

Marriage

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Friedrich von Schiller "Wallenstein"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is the risk we cannot refuse."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Life and Death

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, First Series"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

James L. Hymes, Jr. "Childhood"

Education

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John Churton Collins

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

History and Nations

Peace and War

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)