Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Morrison

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

John McLaughlin

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?

Ayn Rand

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Ayn Rand

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Bertrand Russell

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Her Majesty is not a subject.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Buddy Bell

He was running funny, but Mike has kind of a funny gait anyway. We don't think it's serious.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

Ryan Lochte

There's people out there that are like, 'Oh my God, I want to have your kid. I want to marry you.' People that I've never even met. That's sweet. It's funny.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Eldridge Cleaver

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

Elbert Hubbard

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Elbert Hubbard

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.