Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Edith Piaf

I can die now. I've lived twice.

Billie Holiday

Don't be in such a hurry.

Daniel Boone

I'm going now. My time has come.

Dudley Moore

I can hear the music all around me.

Doc Holliday

Well I'll Be Damned. This is funny.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

George Best

Don't die like I did.

Princess Diana

My God. What's happened?

Charles Spurgeon

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

David Talbot

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

Campbell Newman

Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Louis C. K.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Dennis Brown

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Elizabeth Olsen

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Charlotte Bronte

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.

Bill Ayers

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.