Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Charles Dickens

Lord, keep my memory green.

Charles Dickens

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

Charles Stross

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Rahul Dravid

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

C. S. Lewis

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Justin Glover

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Michael Wong

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

Aaron Huey

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

John Nersesian

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.

Pete Wentz

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

Ronnie Brown

Ricky is pretty laid back, but he cracks jokes and stuff when we're in meetings,

Mike Young

Political honeymoons have a way of ending with a vengeance. This poll reflects that. You don't expect Republicans to be skeptical of one of their own. They like his persona, but the poll shows cracks in the armor.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

Alexander Smith

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Ayn Rand

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

Ernest Hemingway

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Ernest Bramah

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

Sherman Alexie

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Rachel Zoe

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

Steven Tyler

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.