Proverbs and quotes about democracy. For example: "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." (Henry Louis Mencken)
Proverbs and Quotes
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A collection of quotes from Desmond Tutu.: "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Proverbs and quotes about the devil. For example: "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil." (Henry Fielding)
Proverbs and quotes about doctors and physicians. For example: "My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
This is a collection of proverbs, quotes and sayings about dogs, such as: "Dogs have fleas in order to keep them from thinking about being dogs."
Quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers. For example: "A false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit."
Proverbs and quotes about doubt. For example: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln)
Quotes and proverbs about dreams and dreaming. For example: "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." (Walt Disney)
Quotes from Drew Barrymore. For example: "I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons."
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about drinking. For example: "People say I'm a drinker, but I'm sober half the time". (Mick Jagger)
Proverbs and quotes about drugs and dope. For example: "Drugs and alcohol are the cruel engine of many an artists' creativity." (Nathan Hartzenberg)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about earth. For example: "Once the mushroom has sprouted from the earth, there is no turning back."
Proverbs and quotes about eating. For example: "I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded. Dead." (Woody Allen)
Proverbs and quotes about the economy. For example: "Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress." (John Clapham)
Quotes and proverbs about education and schools. For example: "Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself."
Proverbs and quotes about eggs. For example: "If the stone fall upon the egg, alas for the egg! If the egg fall upon the stone, alas for the egg!"
Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell. For example: "It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss."
Quotes from Emily Brontë. For example: "I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!"
Proverbs and quotes about emotions. For example: "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid 100 days of sorrow."
Proverbs and quotes about empty. For example: "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" (Albert Einstein)
A collection of proverbs and quotes about energy. For example: "The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy."
Proverbs and quotes about England, Great Britain and the UK. For example: "English is the easiest language to speak badly." (George Bernard Shaw)
Proverbs and quotes about enlightenment. For example: "Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere."
Proverbs and quotes about the environment. For example: "Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets." (Kofi Annan)
Proverbs and quotes about equality. For example: "Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it." (Elizabeth Gaskell)
Proverbs and quotes about eternity and forever. For example: "Eternity is an awful long time, especially towards the end."
Proverbs and quotes about the evening. For example: "Radish is poison in the morning, food at noon and medicine in the evening."
Proverbs and quotes about evil. For example: "It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity."
Proverbs and quotes about evolution. For example: "People can believe in evolution without understanding it, and vice versa." (Steven Pinker)
Proverbs and quotes about experience. For example: "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (A. Huxley)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about eyes. For example: "If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine." (Federico Fellini)
Proverbs and quotes about the face. For example: "An elephant may be big, but it falls on its face more often than an ant."
Proverbs and quotes about faith, belief, and believing something. "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
We are all one big family! A collection of quotes and proverbs about family. For example: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Leo Tolstoy)
Proverbs and quotes about fantasy. For example: "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living." (Dr. Seuss)
Proverbs and quotes about farmers. For example: "The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)