Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Agatha Christie

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

Addison Mizner

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Adam Smith

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Adam Lambert

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Alberto Manguel

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

Albert Einstein

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Andre Dawson

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Aneurin Bevan

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Anatole France

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Anatole France

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Amanda Seyfried

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Anjelica Huston

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Christopher Walken

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Christopher Walken

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Christopher Walken

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Christopher Walken

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Christopher Meloni

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Christopher Morley

The plural of spouse is spice.