Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

William Shakespeare

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

William Shakespeare

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Earl Butz

Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

Edward Kennedy

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

Edmund Waller

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Benjamin Franklin

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

Benjamin Franklin

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

Benjamin Franklin

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

Benjamin Franklin

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Ben Bradlee

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Jane Goodall

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

This was not a money issue. Was the money fabulous? No. Was it part of the decision-making process? Absolutely. . . . But by no means was it the only thing involved. In the end, the money was a secondary, maybe even a tertiary consideration.

John Cassavetes

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

Jane Austen

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Jane Austen

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Jane Austen

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

Jason Alexander

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

Arthur Eddington

What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

Austin Farrer

A climate in which belief may flourish

Aung San Suu Kyi

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.

Arianna Huffington

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Diana Wynne Jones

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

Desiderius Erasmus

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

Daniel Handler

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

Craig Kilborn

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

Bryant H. McGill

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.