Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Benjamin Franklin

Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the fools of their tools

Lin Wood

Only a fool would subject themselves to questioning by seven investigators as some sort of publicity stunt.

David Jason

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

Charles Portis

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.

Charles Spurgeon

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Denis Healey

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

Elena Kagan

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

Edward Heath

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified

Dominique de Villepin

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

Edward Zwick

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

Abdullah Abdullah

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Abraham Lincoln

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

David Quammen

Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."

Alain de Botton

The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

Anthony Crescenzi

There are hints now that the worst may be over in the labor story.

Gena Showalter

Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.

Nichelle Nichols

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

Jeaniene Frost

A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?

Tim Heekin

All of the numbers this week are potentially market moving. I think people will be watching the numbers for hints about inflation.

Josiah Royce

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.