Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Benjamin Franklin

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Benjamin Franklin

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.

Rodney Carney

I was reflecting on my whole career, reflecting on how we played so bad. It's hurtful not to be going home. I'll go home, but not the way I wanted to.

Karen Thurman

This is a day that I'm sure is very hurtful to the senator. We would welcome the senator to come join us.

Evo Morales

I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.

Leslie Sloane

The story is untrue and hurtful and he didn't give them an interview.

Prince

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

Plutarch

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Billy Collins

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Charles Spurgeon

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Alex Rodriguez

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

Doug Stanhope

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

Crispin Glover

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Amanda Beard

I know that I do deserve good things.

Donald Trump

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.