Thousands of phrases, quotations and aphorisms listed by authors and topics

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Character

My socks may not match, but my feet are always warm.

Gratitude

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Treason

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Peace

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Destiny

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Miscellaneous

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Technology

Without the aid of statistics nothing like real medicine is possible.

Medicine

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Economics

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Business

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Knowledge

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Appearance Attitude

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Art Mistakes Science

We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain.

Brain

Progress is just a modern idea, which is to say a false idea.

Modernity

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Dreams

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Politics War

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Life

I eat cottage cheese for dinner, with salt and pepper!

Cheese

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Dreams