Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Erma Bombeck

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

J. K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

P. D. James

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Mark Twain

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Jon Foreman

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

St. Jerome

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

W. H. Auden

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

John Dewey

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Charles Spurgeon

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

Alan Paton

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Chris Cleave

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

David D. Burns

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Casey Affleck

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

William Shakespeare

Wishers were ever fools.

William Shakespeare

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

William Shakespeare

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.