Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

Charles Spurgeon

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Ang Lee

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Diane Wakoski

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...

Catherine Drinker Bowen

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Cary Grant

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Janis Joplin

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Aaron Sorkin

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

Charles Baudelaire

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Calamity Jane

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

Caitlin Moran

I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly.

Michele Compton

We're starting to put the squeeze on drunken drivers.

Bertrand Russell

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

Demetri Martin

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

Daniel Fried

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Leonardo da Vinci

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

John Polkinghorne

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

Felix Klein

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Eugene Wigner

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Marcus Aurelius

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Rene Descartes

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.