Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Wole Soyinka

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Charles Blood

There doesn't seem to be the overwhelming pessimism that you typically see at a bottom. I think the market's vulnerable on the downside.

John Oliver

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Ian Mcewan

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Miguel de Unamuno

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Oscar Wilde

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

John Templeton

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

Miranda Hart

Pessimism is my default setting.

John Ralston Saul

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Bill Walsh

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

William Dunkelberg

We're going to rein it in. Caution should be the watchword.

Kyle Herring

We're going to err on the side of caution. We're going to run this thing to ground and make sure we understand it.

Benjamin Franklin

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

Kate Forsyth

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

Jeff Gordon

We needed a long run. We didn't need that last caution. That last caution hurt us a bit.

John C. Calhoun

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

Rachel Nichols

I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

Hugh Johnson

Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.