Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satchel Paige

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Satchel Paige

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Satchel Paige

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Satchel Paige

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Sarah Vowell

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

Sandra Boynton

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

Samuel Johnson

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Wallace Stevens

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Vittorio De Sica

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

William Howard Taft

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

William Howard Taft

Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

Washington Irving

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Washington Irving

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Washington Irving

They who drink beer will think beer.

Walter Lord

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

Walter Lippmann

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Walter Lippmann

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Voltaire

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Voltaire

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Voltaire

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Voltaire

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Voltaire

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Voltaire

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Voltaire

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.