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What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

– Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955Rate it:

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

– Salvador DalíRate it:

What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

– AlainRate it:

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

– Norman DouglasRate it:

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

– Norman DouglasRate it:

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

– Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3Rate it:

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

– Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRate it:

What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout?

– ProverbRate it:

What is art Nature concentrated.

– Honore' de BalzacRate it:

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

– Rabindranath TagoreRate it:

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

What is blacker than the 'raven'? Answer; His Feathers:

– Francis M. Faber Jr.Rate it:

What is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

– Dr. Jose P. RizalRate it:

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von SchlegelRate it:

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

– Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, "Economy"Rate it:

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

– Steve MartinRate it:

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

– AristotleRate it:

What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

What is dance but a dose of stability, for it restores the balance of calm and chaos beneath

– Shah Asad RizviRate it:

What is Death? Death is the unavoidable End of every living human and every living thing. As a matter of fact, you will surely taste death someday, sometime, somehow and somewhere. Regardless of your present financial status, social status, academic qualifications or family background. -Emeasoba George

– Emeasoba GeorgeRate it:

What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.

– Wendell PhillipsRate it:

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