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 Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Robert Osborne

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Malcolm McDowell

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Greg Gorbatenko

Like his father, Roberts still has family values but they're packaged in a younger and more aggressive personality. What Wall Street admires about Roberts is that he's made big acquisitions and successfully integrated those units into the company.

Jerome Charyn

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Sean Conway

Sen. Allard is aware the band is heavy metal and has strong 'political lyrics' in their songs, but he admires the band members for their standing up for what they believe in, and for their strong support of the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

Douglas Hurd

Neither the Iraqi people, nor other Arab governments nor indeed Islamic fundamentalists have any reason to admire or trust Saddam Hussein.

John Roberts

One reason people admire justice Jackson so much is that although he had strong views as attorney general, he recognized when he became a member of the Supreme Court that his job had changed, and he was not the president's lawyer,

Molly Antopol

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

Patrick Cox

One of his consistent traits, both critics and admirers would say, is that his honesty and integrity were second to none.