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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
[ Pleasure ]
Minna Antrim
19 votes
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
[ Flattery ]
Minna Antrim
27 votes
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
[ Lies and Lying ]
Minna Antrim
17 votes
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
[ Life and Living ]
Minna Antrim
32 votes
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
[ Happiness ]
Guillaume Apollinaire
29 votes
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
[ Nature ]
Guillaume Apollinaire
29 votes
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
[ Blindness ]
Michael Apostolius
6 votes
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
[ Modern and Modernism ]
Bryan Appleyard
23 votes
Beware of the person of one book.
[ Books - Reading ]
St. Thomas Aquinas
26 votes
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
[ Equality ]
St. Thomas Aquinas
29 votes
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
[ Character ]
St. Thomas Aquinas
18 votes
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
[ Persuasion ]
St. Thomas Aquinas
18 votes
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
[ Ignorance ]
Arabian Proverb
28 votes
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
[ Death and Dying ]
Arabian Proverb
28 votes
If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
[ Beggars ]
Arabian Proverb
29 votes
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
[ Power ]
Arabian Proverb
28 votes
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
[ Sin ]
Arabian Proverb
27 votes
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
[ Silence ]
Arabian Proverb
28 votes
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
[ Photography ]
Diane Arbus
27 votes
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
[ Biography ]
John Arbuthnot
21 votes
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
[ Love ]
Jean Anouilh Ardele
29 votes
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
[ Food and Eating ]
Jeff Arder
29 votes
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Hannah Arendt
24 votes
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
[ Third World ]
Hannah Arendt
28 votes
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
[ Neighbors ]
Pietro Aretino
29 votes
By words the mind is winged.
[ Words ]
Aristophanes
23 votes
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
[ Wisdom ]
Aristophanes
29 votes
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
[ Animals ]
Aristotle
21 votes
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
[ Dignity ]
Aristotle
21 votes
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
[ Character ]
Aristotle
26 votes
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
[ Action ]
Aristotle
30 votes
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
[ Achievement ]
Aristotle
26 votes
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Aristotle
27 votes
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
[ Moderation ]
Aristotle
29 votes
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
[ Wonder ]
Aristotle
29 votes