Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mary Renault

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Mary Beard

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Marquis de Sade

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Mark Mothersbaugh

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Mario Van Peebles

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

Marion Bartoli

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

Mario Puzo

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Mario Puzo

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Mario Puzo

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

Nikki Sixx

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

Nicole Richie

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

Nick Mason

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

Nick Park

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

Mary McCarthy

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Mary McCarthy

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

Jude Law

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Joseph Joubert

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

Knut Hamsun

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Knut Hamsun

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Murray Rothbard

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.

Moliere

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Moliere

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Moliere

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Mohsin Hamid

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

Milton Friedman

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people...or to the states.

Natalia Ginzburg

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Nat Wolff

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.