Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Willie Morris

When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

William Zinsser

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

William S. Burroughs

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

William S. Burroughs

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Vinnie Jones

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

Woody Guthrie

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

Woody Harrelson

I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier

Woody Harrelson

I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J--- is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.

Woodrow Wilson

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Yasser Arafat

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

Wiz Khalifa

I'm not a facebook status you don't have to like me.

Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Will Rogers

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Will Rogers

I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.

Will Rogers

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

Will Rogers

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.

Will Rogers

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

Will Rogers

Common sense ain't common.

Will Rogers

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

Will Rogers

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

Will Rogers

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

Will Rogers

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

Will Rogers

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

Will Rogers

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.