Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Lord Hailsham

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Lorde

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin

I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Lord Chesterfield

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Lord Chesterfield

Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.

Lord Chesterfield

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

Malcolm Forbes

Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

Malcolm Forbes

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Malcolm Forbes

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

Malcolm Gladwell

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Magic Johnson

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

Maisie Williams

I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

Maimonides

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

Maimonides

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Maimonides

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

Mahatma Gandhi

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Mahatma Gandhi

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you seek.

Mahatma Gandhi

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Mahatma Gandhi

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

Mahatma Gandhi

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

Gene Wolfe

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Gene Wolfe

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Gay Talese

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

Gavin Rossdale

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.