Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Carole Bouquet

Wine is connected to abundance.

Carole Bouquet

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

C. S. Lewis

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Brian Eno

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Brandi Carlile

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.