Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Ludwig von Mises

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

Barbara Pym

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Martin Gardner

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Value the relationship more than making your quota.

David Henry Hwang

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Avril Lavigne

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Catherine Opie

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Bram Stoker

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Ashleigh Brilliant

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

Alexander Lebed

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.