Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Mae Brown

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Rita Mae Brown

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Richard Strauss

Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

Richard Thompson

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thomas Nagel

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Thomas Paine

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Timothy Leary

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

Timothy Leary

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Thomas Sowell

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Ricky Davis

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score

Richard Lewis

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

Richard Lewis

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Richard Lerner

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

Richard M. Nixon

Solutions are not the answer.

Richard M. Nixon

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

Richard M. Nixon

This is a great day for France!

Richard M. Nixon

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

Richard M. Nixon

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leslie Nielsen

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

Leo Buscaglia

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

Lee Trevino

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

Lee Trevino

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

Lee Trevino

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Lady Gaga

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Lewis Grizzard

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Lew Wasserman

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Lew Wallace

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lewis Black

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.