Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John XXIII

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Pope John XXIII

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Mickey Rivers

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Mickey Rivers

What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

Terry Venables

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Terry Pratchett

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Terry Pratchett

The second mouse gets the cheese!

Terry Pratchett

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

Terry Pratchett

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

Terry Pratchett

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

Terry Pratchett

The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.

Terry Crisp

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

Terry Bradshaw

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Tennessee Williams

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Tennessee Williams

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Ted Williams

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Shania Twain

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

Si Robertson

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

Shimon Peres

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Pearl S. Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Paula Poundstone

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Paula Poundstone

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

Paula Poundstone

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Paula Poundstone

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

Peter Ustinov

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Peter Ustinov

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

Peter Ustinov

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Pauly Shore

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.