Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Saget

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Bob Saget

Today is a brand new day. A day of change, of promise, of creativity, of kindness, and of love. I'm going back to bed.

Billy West

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Billy Zane

One who knows nothing can understand nothing

Billy Wilder

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Bill Maher

New Rule: All Fox News employees must now refer to President Bush as "my liege". If they are going to treat President Bush like he's an infallible king, they need to start addressing him as if he was an infallible king. And they can do this by addressing him as "my liege".

Bill Maher

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

Bill Ayers

Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

Beth Moore

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Beth Moore

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Beth Moore

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

Bill Wyman

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Wyman

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Veeck

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Bill Watterson

I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.

Frida Lyngstad

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

Anne Sullivan

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Edna O'Brien

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

Edgar Winter

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

Edgar Lee Masters

This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.

Edgar Guest

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Benjamin Franklin

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

Benjamin Franklin

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

Benjamin Franklin

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Benjamin Franklin

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Benjamin Franklin

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

Benjamin Franklin

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Benjamin Franklin

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

Benjamin Franklin

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

Benjamin Franklin

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

Barbara Tuchman

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.