Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Brennan Manning

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Eli Roth

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Agnes Repplier

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Ben Affleck

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'