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New entries: Quotes recently added to Best-Quotations.
 | I had to squeeze knowledge to make room for faith. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 03-21-2025 |
| All people have a moral sense. Since this sense does not always motivate a person to actions that bring him earthly benefit, therefore, there must be some basis, some motivation for moral behavior that lies outside this world. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 03-21-2025 |
 | It is more difficult to write a comedy than a tragedy. Tragedy is copied from life, comedy is invented. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 03-21-2025 |
 | People are always bad until they are forced to good by necessity. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 03-21-2025 |
 | There are too many screws, wheels and valves in each of us for us to be able to judge each other by first impressions or by two or three external signs. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 03-20-2025 |
| The more habits, the less freedom. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 03-20-2025 |
| In war, neither side can be declared in advance to be in the wrong, but only the outcome of the war decides which side is in the right. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 03-20-2025 |
| The appeal to common sense is nothing more than a reference to the approval of the crowd. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 03-20-2025 |
 | The future is a to-do list. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 03-20-2025 |
 | Obsessive thoughts drain the soul. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 03-20-2025 |
| It has always been the case that the closer a person is to the truth, the simpler and more understandable he is. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 03-19-2025 |
| New forms of art are always followed by new forms of life. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 03-19-2025 |
| A kind person can feel ashamed even in front of a dog. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 03-19-2025 |
| Passionate love is a psychosis. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 03-19-2025 |
| The greatest sensual pleasure which does not contain any admixture of disgust is, in a healthy state, rest after work — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 03-19-2025 |
| If you want to be informed, read a newspaper; if you want to be misinformed, read two newspapers! — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 03-19-2025 |
| Someone else’s thought comes to a person’s mind faster than his own. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 03-19-2025 |
| A smart politician focuses more on the unwillingness of the people than on their desires. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 03-19-2025 |
| The man who wishes to remain virtuous under all circumstances is left to perish among the multitude of those who are not virtuous. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 03-19-2025 |
| The main conflicts in society unfold between the elites: the minority that holds power against another minority that is moving towards power. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 03-19-2025 |
| Life is short? Yes, but that is only one of its dimensions. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 03-19-2025 |
| An aphorism is borrowing someone else’s truth to express your own lie. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 03-19-2025 |
| If everyone around you is a fool, then you are the center. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 03-19-2025 |
| The silence of a fool means nothing. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 03-19-2025 |
| Career: from fighting for a piece of bread to a fight for a piece of the pie. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 03-19-2025 |
| The art of marriage consists in the ability to pass from love to friendship without sacrificing love. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 03-19-2025 |
| At the beginning of love, lovers talk about the future; towards the end, they talk about the past. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 03-19-2025 |
 | Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-18-2025 |
 | Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-17-2025 |
| I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-17-2025 |
 | It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-17-2025 |
 | They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. — Kurt Cobain, 1967-1994, American singer 02-16-2025 |
| Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. — Kurt Cobain, 1967-1994, American singer 02-16-2025 |
| A friend is nothing but a known enemy. — Kurt Cobain, 1967-1994, American singer 02-16-2025 |
| No one dies a virgin. Life fucks them all. — Kurt Cobain, 1967-1994, American singer 02-16-2025 |
| I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| The shadows are as important as the light. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 02-16-2025 |
| First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-16-2025 |
| I hope I never get so old I get religious. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-16-2025 |
| I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-16-2025 |
| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-16-2025 |
| Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-16-2025 |
| I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 02-16-2025 |
| Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| The tongue, the ambassador of the heart. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| Where a mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| The night has a thousand eyes. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| All is fair in love and war. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| As the best wine do make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns in to the deadliest hate. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| In misery it is great comfort to have a companion. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| It is far more seemly to have your Study full of Books, than your Purse full of money. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-16-2025 |
| Love knoweth no laws. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 02-14-2025 |
 | That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 12-25-2024 |
 | Everything is pathology, except for indifference. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 12-24-2024 |
| Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 12-24-2024 |
| I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 12-24-2024 |
| Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die? — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 12-23-2024 |
 | This is more than a crime. It is a mistake. — Prince Metternich, 1773-1859, Austrian statesman 12-08-2024 |
 | Hearing a phrase that seems very right to you is like seeing your soul in the mirror. — Christine Orban, 1954-, French writer 12-08-2024 |
 | People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-08-2024 |
 | The art of politics is to bring things about in such a way that it benefits you to be honest. — Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715-1771, French philosopher 12-07-2024 |
| In the end, the truth always wins. Unfortunately, we are still at the beginning. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
| In the theater, the director is a god. But, unfortunately, the actors are atheists. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
| The naked truth cannot compete successfully with a lie dressed in the latest fashion. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
| How to keep the peace, unfortunately, remains a military secret. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 12-07-2024 |
 | If God does not present himself to atheists, it is because he is afraid that they will convert him to atheism. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 12-07-2024 |
 | Having good health means being able to abuse it with impunity. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 12-07-2024 |
| There is one undeniable sign that you recognize that you love someone romantically, and that is when their face arouses more desire in you than any other part of their body. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 12-07-2024 |
 | Everyone in Italy is 20 years old, including me. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 12-07-2024 |
| Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 12-07-2024 |
 | If the sun enters the house, it also enters a little into your soul. — Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect 12-07-2024 |
| The house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect 12-07-2024 |
 | All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Duty is the essence of manhood. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Most battles are won before they are ever fought. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 12-07-2024 |
| All great achievements require time. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
| We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 12-07-2024 |
 | We are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 12-07-2024 |
| A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 12-07-2024 |
| Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 12-07-2024 |
 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-07-2024 |
| If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-07-2024 |
| When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 12-07-2024 |
| The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| A gentleman is never in a hurry. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 12-06-2024 |
 | There is much more love in friendship than friendship in love. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 12-06-2024 |
 | Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch monk & author 12-06-2024 |
| Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch monk & author 12-06-2024 |
| If we combine the dark past with the bright future, we will have the gray present. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 12-06-2024 |
 | A politician cannot have a career if he does not have a good memory, because he needs to remember the promises he must forget. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| If I had known I would have loved her this much, I would have loved her even more. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 12-06-2024 |
 | He who thinks he is always right is always wrong in that first. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| We are young when we hope that each day will be different from the day before; old when we hope that each year will be like the last. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
| From violin, a man as he ages becomes a cello, then a double bass: a thick body, a deep voice and not much to say. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 12-06-2024 |
