Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Benson

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

D. James

What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting

Eliza Haywood

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Terry Denbow

We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.

Paul Ford

But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions.

Martin O'Malley

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Bern Williams

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Tom Collen

I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Robert Browning

This Quiet, all it hath a mind to do, doth.

Thomas Holcroft

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The

Henry Wotton

Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all

Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

John Milton

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess'd

Baha'u'llah

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

Bible Bible

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Robert Burton

We can say nothing but what hath been said

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Jeremy Shockey

We know he's up there smiling, ... But in the same sense, he's probably saying, 'Get ready for San Francisco.'

Lee Johnson

We'd get the shack arranged, get it ready to pull, and would find more damage, ... They used every trick in the book, but they got it moved.

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Brett Gardner

Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

Jewel

If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Ludwig von Mises

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

Anne Lamott

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

Christopher Judge

A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,

J. C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

Thomas Aquinas

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Samuel Johnson

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.