Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Eldridge Cleaver

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

Elbert Hubbard

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Elbert Hubbard

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Edsger Dijkstra

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Edward Abbey

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Aristotle

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Aristotle

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.

Ben Hogan

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Ben Harper

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

Alexandre Dumas

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

Lt. Steven Hauk: Sir, in my heart, I know I'm funny.

Magnum photographers can take a very somber picture but they can also take a very funny picture. I do hope people come away with a sense of humor about this.

Aaron Williams

Liam is real cool. He's a funny guy. He's real smart, and he shows real good leadership on and off the court.

Xavier Niel

It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.