Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Caleb Colton

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Charles Caleb Colton

If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

David Miliband

Everything about my politics has been about the future

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.

Ayn Rand

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

George Herbert

All are not merry that dance lightly.

Harry Shearer

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

P. C. Cast

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

Norm MacDonald

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

Nat King Cole

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

Megan McCafferty

She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia.

Thomas S. Monson

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Rick Riordan

Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!