Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Harvey Pitt

Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,

S. Jay Olshansky

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Sarah Monette

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Theodore William Richards

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

George Will

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

Eliza Haywood

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

D. James

What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting

Terry Denbow

We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.

E. F. Benson

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

Edwards Deming

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Paul Ford

But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions.

Martin O'Malley

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Bern Williams

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Tom Collen

I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Scott Anderson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Heather Brooke

In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.

William Hastie

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Chris Larsen

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a son? A thing begot / Within a pair of minutes, thereabouts, / A lump bred up in darkness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Spurgeon

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Al Jarreau

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Duke of Wellington

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Deborah Durham

Manners are how you show how you're going to relate to someone else.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners form the great charm of women.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.