Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Confucius

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

Confucius

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

Dane Cook

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

Dave Lombardo

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

Anna Nicole Smith

I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.

Anna Quindlen

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

Amy Tan

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

Andy Stanley

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Andy Stanley

As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

Ann Patchett

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Christopher Parker

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Anita Loos

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Anita Loos

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

Anita Loos

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

Andrew Sullivan

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Andre Maurois

A gentleman is never in a hurry.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Ambrose Bierce

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ambrose Bierce

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Ambrose Bierce

PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

Ambrose Bierce

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Alison Bechdel

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Amy Lowell

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

Allen Ginsberg

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Anthony Jeselnik

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

Amanda Burton

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is for truth that God created genius.

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