Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

Caleb Followill

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in

Bob Monkhouse

My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

Charles de Gaulle

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Bob Phillips

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

Anthony Trollope

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Aristotle Onassis

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aphra Behn

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Doris Day

I don't know if I want to get married again.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

Charles Caleb Colton

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

Charles Caleb Colton

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Charles Dickens

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.