Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Charles Caleb Colton

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Charles Dickens

Eccentricities of genius.

Camille Paglia

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Camille Paglia

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

William Shakespeare

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Bob Packwood

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

Charles Spurgeon

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

David Talbot

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

Campbell Newman

Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Louis C. K.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Dennis Brown

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Elizabeth Olsen

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Charlotte Bronte

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.

Bill Ayers

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.