Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

Charles Caleb Colton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Chris Colfer

I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.

Aidan Quinn

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Eddie Izzard

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Chad Knaus

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

Alexis Ohanian

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Bob Dylan

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

Edwin Edwards

Up with skirts, down with pants!'

Edward Abbey

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Phillip McGraw

You don't need stain-resistant pants to pop a blister.

Aeschylus

Do not kick against the pricks.

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Behati Prinsloo

I try to do Pilates when I can all year around and I also like to swim a lot. I also have a trainer that kicks my butt when it's needed.

Leon Washington

We don't make kicks down here in Miami. I don't know what it is. Somebody put something on us.

Michaela McManus

I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.

Reid Scott

If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.

John Benedetto

We don't play him much defensively because he's such a threat on offense. Plus, he returns kicks for us. We use him where he's best, and that's at the receiver position.

A. Hodge

We'll never be a team that kicks away from anybody.

Matthew Warchus

We tried to use the technology kind of like a turbo-engine that kicks in from time to time. But the style of the production had to be more organic, human, always referring to the natural world.