Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plautus

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

Plato

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

Plato

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Plato

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Plato

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

Plato

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Plato

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Plato

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Plato

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Plato

God forever geometrizes.

Plato

Geometry existed before creation.

Plato

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Philip Treacy

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Philip Zimbardo

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Philip Larkin

I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad...

Philip Larkin

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Paula Abdul

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

Paula Abdul

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

Paula Deen

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

Phil McGraw

I just am not good at math.

Phil McGraw

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Martin Puryear

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

Martin Schulz

I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.

Martin Schulz

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

Ledisi

Any success matters to me.

Lee Ann Womack

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

Lech Walesa

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Lee Child

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Laurie R. King

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

Laurie R. King

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Lance Armstrong

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.