Aphorisms and Quotations in English
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| N° | Author | Text | Subject | Subject |
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| 3820 | Nicholas Murray Butler | An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. | Knowledge | Knowledge |
| 2459 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | We aim above the mark to hit the mark. | Aiming | Aiming |
| 4003 | G.M. Trevelyan | Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. | Education | Education |
| 2853 | Sir Isaac Newton | We build too many walls and not enough bridges. | Individualism | Individualism |
| 3968 | Anonymous | If you want to stay single...look for the perfect mate ! | Marriage | Marriage |
| 4498 | Oscar Wilde | A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. | Love | Love |
| 3241 | Galileo Galilei | I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. | Religion | Religion |
| 2454 | Steven Wright | Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. | Laziness | Laziness |
| 4160 | Anonymous | Who do you turn to when the only person who can stop your tears, is the one that's causing them? | Crying | Crying |
| 3812 | Portuguese Proverb | Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure. | Hospitality | Hospitality |
| 3348 | Graham Greene | No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. | Understanding | Understanding |
| 4334 | Jonathan Swift | Quando un vero genio appare in questo mondo, lo si può riconoscere dal fatto che gli idioti sono tutti coalizzati contro di lui. | Genius | Genius |
| 2323 | Anonymous | All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. | Morality | Morality |
| 3614 | David Brent | If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. | Success | Success |
| 4234 | Joseph Joubert | We are all old children. | Ageing | Ageing |
| 4192 | Emile Cioran | There is no false sensation. | Truth | Truth |
| 4179 | Emile Cioran | "Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place." This old proverb makes all judgment impossible, for we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place. | Judging | Judging |
| 2250 | Erich Fromm | Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. | Generosity | Generosity |
| 3647 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Woman was God's second mistake. | Women | Women |
| 4240 | Joseph Joubert | Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better. | Aphorisms | Aphorisms |
| 3273 | Emma Goldman | If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. | Democracy | Democracy |
| 2966 | Alistair Cooke | A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. | Work | Work |
| 2833 | Will Rogers | So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. | Morality | Morality |
| 3982 | Victor Borge | Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. | Laughing | Laughing |
| 3079 | Thomas Wolfe | You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. | Success | Success |
| 3889 | Thomas Jefferson | The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. | Education | Education |
| 2192 | Bertrand Russell | The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. | Stupidity | Stupidity |
| 3498 | Anonymous | Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water power. | Women | Women |
| 3488 | Fiedrich Hegel | The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. | History | History |
| 4333 | Orson Welles | Gli idioti sono una saggia istituzione della natura che permette agli stupidi di ritenersi intelligenti. | Stupidity | Stupidity |
| 4073 | Steven Wright | I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. | Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous |
| 3891 | T. S. Eliot | Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. | Mankind | Mankind |
| 4325 | Peter Drucker | Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. | Responsibility | Responsibility |
| 4303 | George Bernard Shaw | Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. | Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous |
| 3248 | Susan Ertz | Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. | Immortality | Immortality |
| 3980 | Anonymous | In strong wind, even turkeys can fly. | Ability | Ability |
| 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 |
| 3497 | Arnold Palmer | The road to success is always under construction. | Success | Success |
| 2114 | Bertrand Russell | A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it. | Marriage | Marriage |
| 4329 | Peter Drucker | The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. | Management | Management |
| 2975 | Henry David Thoreau | The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. | Solitude | Solitude |
| 2678 | Gail Godwin | Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. | Teaching | Teaching |
| 3433 | Jane Addams | I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. | Women | Women |
| 3760 | Talmudic Saying | We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. | Perception | Perception |
| 3868 | Dante Alighieri | The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. | Neutrality | Neutrality |
| 3280 | Anonymous | A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist. | Politics | Politics |
| 2183 | Sam Levenson | It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. | Wisdom | Wisdom |
| 3168 | Friedrich Nietzsche | I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. | God | God |
| 4171 | Emile Cioran | The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. | Truth | Truth |
| 4534 | William Rotsler | Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. | Humour | Humour |