Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sanjay Kumar

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Gerald Schatten

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

English Proverbs

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Irish Proverb

Lack of resource has hanged many a person.

John Lutz

There's nothing better you can do than to exonerate somebody who's been hanged . . . for a crime. And that's what students can end up doing on this project.

Italian Proverb

If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

African Proverbs

We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

Frederic Bastiat

They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

Denzel Washington

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

Edna Ferber

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Benjamin Franklin

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

Benjamin Franklin

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Diana Wynne Jones

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

Abraham Lincoln

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

Ricky Gervais

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.