Aphorisms and Quotations in English
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| N° | Author | Text | Subject | Subject |
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| 4299 | George Bernard Shaw | He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people’s labor. | Generosity | Generosity |
| 2598 | Ogden Nash | There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. | Conscience | Conscience |
| 2618 | Groucho Marx | I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. | Memory | Memory |
| 4014 | George Bernard Shaw | I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. | Quotations | Quotations |
| 3660 | Johann W. von Goethe | As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. | Life | Life |
| 2309 | Henry Ford | If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. | Knowledge | Knowledge |
| 3546 | Werner von Braun | Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity. | Universe | Universe |
| 2192 | Bertrand Russell | The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. | Stupidity | Stupidity |
| 2767 | Voltaire | Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. | Guilt | Guilt |
| 2603 | Winston Churchill | The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. | Democracy | Democracy |
| 3919 | Czech proverb | The big thieves hang the little ones. | Crime | Crime |
| 4528 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Se entri mi fai onore; se non entri, un piacere | Hospitality | Hospitality |
| 4293 | George Bernard Shaw | Happiness and Beauty are by-products. | Happiness | Happiness |
| 3089 | Carl Rogers | The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change. | Education | Education |
| 4311 | Peter Drucker | The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer, so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. | Marketing | Marketing |
| 4257 | Giacomo Leopardi | The old man, especially if he is in society, in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women. | Vanity | Vanity |
| 2116 | Henry Ford | Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. | Punishment | Punishment |
| 4240 | Joseph Joubert | Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better. | Aphorisms | Aphorisms |
| 4024 | Plato | The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. | Government | Government |
| 2861 | Socrates | Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. | Life | Life |
| 3624 | George Matthew Adams | There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. | Education | Education |
| 4316 | Peter Drucker | The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. | Management | Management |
| 2473 | Anonymous | The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. | Commitment | Commitment |
| 4648 | André Gide | It is better to be hated for what one is, than loved for what one is not. | Love | Love |
| 4110 | Oscar Wilde | The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. | Knowledge | Knowledge |
| 2173 | Oscar Wilde | Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. | Conformism | Conformism |
| 3299 | Marcel Archard | Women like silent men. They think they're listening. | Women | Women |
| 2253 | Leo Tolstoy | The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. | Life | Life |
| 3371 | David Brent | Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow. | Responsibility | Responsibility |
| 3079 | Thomas Wolfe | You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. | Success | Success |
| 2842 | Stephen Jay Gould | In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. | Science | Science |
| 2186 | Erich Fromm | The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. | History | History |
| 3100 | Socrates | My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. And that is a good thing for any man | Marriage | Marriage |
| 2546 | Flemish proverb | What a man says drunk he has thought sober. | Drinking | Drinking |
| 3016 | Aristotle Onassis | The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. | Business | Business |
| 4258 | Giacomo Leopardi | Works of genius have this in common, that even when they vividly capture the nothingness of things, when they clearly show and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life, and when they express the most terrible despair, nonetheless to a great soul -- though he find himself in a state of extreme duress, disillusion, nothingness, noia, and despair of life, or in the bitterest and deadliest misfortunes (caused by deep feelings or whatever) -- these works always console and rekindle enthusiasm; and though they treat or represent only death, they give back to him, at least temporarily, that life which he had lost. | Genius | Genius |
| 2317 | George Carlin | A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket and said, "Don't you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" I said "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too". | Humour | Humour |
| 3615 | Bertrand Russell | No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. | Gossip | Gossip |
| 4342 | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | Isn't it odd, that people like to fight for their religion but unwillingly live after its prescriptions. | Religion | Religion |
| 3820 | Nicholas Murray Butler | An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. | Knowledge | Knowledge |
| 2524 | Woody Allen | I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. | Marriage | Marriage |
| 3236 | Thomas Jefferson | When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. | Freedom | Freedom |
| 3019 | Cynthia Nelms | Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. | Happiness | Happiness |
| 3452 | Cato the Elder | After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. | Honour | Honour |
| 3797 | Ralph Peters | Beware, no matter his faith, the man who presumes to tell you what God wants. | Religion | Religion |
| 2220 | George Bernard Shaw | The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. | Religion | Religion |
| 2306 | Jim Elliot | The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. | Action | Action |
| 3694 | Johann W. von Goethe | Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. | Humour | Humour |
| 4223 | Joseph Joubert | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye. | Imagination | Imagination |
| 3803 | Oscar Wilde | I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. | God | God |