Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Matisse

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Henri Matisse

When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Heath Ledger

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

Henry Ford

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

Helen Rowland

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

Helen Rowland

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Helen Rowland

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Helen Rowland

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Helen Rowland

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Helen Rowland

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Heinrich Heine

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Heather Locklear

Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Henry Ward Beecher

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Joe Walsh

The song tells me what to play.

Joe Louis

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

Joaquin Phoenix

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Joe Rogan

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Joe E. Lewis

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe Frazier

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Joan Didion

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

Joan Jett

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

Jimmy Cannon

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.