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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Humankind
[ E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings ]
849 votes.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Knowledge
[ Edgar Degas ]
849 votes.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education
[ Edward Everett ]
849 votes.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
Weddings
[ Sir James M. Barrie ]
848 votes.

Everything can be improved.
Quality
[ C. W. Barron ]
848 votes.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Arts and Artists
[ Charles Baudelaire ]
848 votes.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Fools and Foolishness
[ Nicholas Boileau ]
848 votes.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Consciousness
[ Joseph Brodsky ]
848 votes.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Winners and Winning
[ Mel Brooks ]
848 votes.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Action
[ Miguel De Cervantes ]
848 votes.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Reason
[ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort ]
848 votes.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Parents and Parenting
[ Frank A. Clark ]
848 votes.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Pleasure
[ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ]
848 votes.

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.
Complaints and Complaining
[ Jewish Proverb ]
848 votes.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Habit
[ Aristotle ]
847 votes.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Understanding
[ St. Augustine ]
847 votes.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Travel and Tourism
[ Richard Bach ]
847 votes.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Wealth
[ Francis Bacon ]
847 votes.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Mothers
[ Honore De Balzac ]
847 votes.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.
Inertia
[ Samuel Beckett ]
847 votes.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
Transportation
[ Alan Brien ]
847 votes.

And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
Religion
[ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ]
847 votes.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Temptation
[ Basil Bunting ]
847 votes.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Plagiarism
[ Sir Richard Burton ]
847 votes.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
Embarrassment
[ Lord Byron ]
847 votes.

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