Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cary Grant

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Aimee Bender

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

Joel Madden

We always go the French Quarter and watch the same little kids who tap dance with bottle caps on their shoes, ... When I saw this on the news, my first thought was, 'Man, I hope those kids are all right.'

Karl Malone

We were totally self-contained with our own food and everything. We didn't want to take even one bottle of water away from these people. When we told them we were doing this for free, they looked at us like we were crazy or something.

Alan Sugar

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

Paul Heath

We're going to keep that portion of this bottle that we know we're going to have to keep with us forever. And from time to time, ladies and gentleman, you may want to fill your bottle back up, because you're life may be filled up with grief. But you can then take out that bottle and pour it out on any living thing.

Boyle Roche

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

Boyle Roche

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

Alexandre Dumas

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Caleb Colton

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Caitlin Kittredge

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

Caleb Cushing

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Catherine the Great

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...

William Shakespeare

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Charles Spurgeon

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Chris Bosh

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Ariana Grande

Never take yourself too seriously.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Arundhati Roy

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

Daniel Quinn

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Dante Alighieri

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

Robert Keats

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Aristotle

All proofs rest on premises.

Adam Ereli

The proof will be in the pudding. Let's see what happens.

Jim Sluzewski

The proof will be in the integration of the transition.

John Brady

The proof is in when you look at him,

Jerry Foster

The proof is in the pudding: you have to will what you want.

Charles Dickens

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Charles Caleb Colton

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Charles Caleb Colton

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

Charles Dickens

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Charles Dickens

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

Alan Moore

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

Al Pacino

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

Dan Fogleman

Wal-Mart ... regrets any inconvenience to our customers.

Chris Harper

Mr. Wilson is very remorseful that this happened. He totally regrets it.

Neil Rackers

Nope. I'd have no regrets about this year, other than the two I just told you about -- the 54-yarder and the 43-yarder.

Joe Roberts

It was a done deal. Now Patrick regrets what happened.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?