Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

Robert De Niro

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Robert Jordan

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

William Howard Taft

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

William Billings

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Wale

It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons.

Georgette Heyer

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Franz Grillparzer

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Jeaniene Frost

Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist.

Jeaniene Frost

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

Hippocrates

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Ezra Cornell

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

Hale Irwin

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

Mark Gottfried

He's the man of steel, no question. He's our version of Lou Gehrig. He's the iron man; he never comes out.

Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. The firste spirit quiksilver called is, The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis, Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon. The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

Chris Hedges

I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Chris Powell

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

George Carlin

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

Erma Bombeck

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

Flann O'Brien

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Joe Moore

It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being discussed. If you're trying to put more money into classrooms, why would you put more money into overhead and administrative costs?

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Dusty Baker

It's a possibility. We'll iron it out this week.

It's sort of ironic that it's in Indianapolis ? a little place that we had a little success.

It's like a shirt when it's all wrinkled up. You press it with an iron and it comes out looking better.

Janet Fitch

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

Cassandra Clare

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.