Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

Part with your head, but not with your secret.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

African Proverbs

We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Hilary Duff

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond

Mason Cooley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Anthony Romero

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Edward Abbey

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

Brandon Ferguson

To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Abu Bakar Bashir

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

Bryan Batt

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.