Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Walpole

When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

Horace Walpole

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

Horace

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

Horace Mann

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

Homer

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

Homer

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

Homer

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

Homer

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

Homer

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Homer

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Homer

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Homer

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

Homer

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

If he wins in November, he will be King Kong,

I'd sign that petition. That kind of thing is important.

Joe Morgan

I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.

Eric Clapton

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

Eminem

Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit

Eminem

You know, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I'm kind of a big deal.

Eminem

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

Eminem

Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?

Elsa Maxwell

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Jasper Fforde

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good –

Jason Patric

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Hillary Clinton

I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head.

Hillary Clinton

What King Abdullah of Jordan said is essentially the war against ISIS is a war for the soul of Islam. And it must be Muslim troops on the ground that will destroy ISIS, with the support of a coalition of major powers - U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Russia.

Hillary Clinton

It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.

Hillary Clinton

I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

Hillary Clinton

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

Hillary Clinton

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school...