Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Hilton

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Quintilian

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

R. A. Salvatore

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Quentin Crisp

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Quentin Crisp

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Quentin Crisp

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

Pliny the Elder

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Plutarch

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Plutarch

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

Plutarch

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Plutarch

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's with my brush that I make love.

Phyllis Schlafly

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Philip Yancey

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

Polybius

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

Pope John XXIII

I am made to tremble and I fear!

Pope Francis

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

Mike Gravel

I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Nathaniel Branden

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

Jimmy Buffett

We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!

Jim Lee

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

Jim Lehrer

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

Jim Lehrer

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

Jim Rohn

It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.

Jim Rohn

Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.

Jim Rohn

Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.

George Mason

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

George Lucas

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.