Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Gary Neville

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Geezer Butler

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

Geezer Butler

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Henry Fielding

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

Ian Botham

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

John Hartson

When you are playing with good players, it doesn't matter if they are Argentinian, German, Welsh or whatever. Good players can join in and understand their team-mates on the pitch. In most of our games, you can't hear what the other lads are saying anyway, because of the noise of the crowd. I'm sure Shunsuke will want to learn English so he can enjoy the other lads' company, but there are so many Japanese people here watching him that he isn't going to be lonely.

We will migrate as technology migrates, and more often than not, we're the ones leading the technology drive. This product is here to stay.

Francesca Annis

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

Frederick Marryat

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Benjamin Britten

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

Gary Lineker

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Emily Watson

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

Emily Watson

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

Emily Watson

I always think I am going to do my best.

Emily Watson

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Flea

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

Fanny Burney

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Edward Young

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Edward Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.