Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lothrop Motley

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

John Locke

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Leo

The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."

John Lithgow

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Joe Walsh

The song tells me what to play.

Joe Louis

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

Joaquin Phoenix

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Jo Brand

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

Jo Brand

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Bruno

Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

Francois Truffaut

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Francois Truffaut

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Frank A. Clark

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

George Deukmejian

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Geezer Butler

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Cusack

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Patrick Swayze

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Patrick Ewing

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

Patrick Chan

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Ozzie Guillen

I love Fidel Castro, I respect Fidel Castro, you know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf****r is still here.

Ovid

A woman is always buying something.

Paul Mazursky

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

Paul Lynde

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.