Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas William Jerrold

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Douglas William Jerrold

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Douglas William Jerrold

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Douglas William Jerrold

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Douglas William Jerrold

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Douglas William Jerrold

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Dr. Seuss

Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

Dorothy Gilman

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Dorothy Dunnett

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Dorothy Dunnett

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Dorothy Day

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

Dorothy Day

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

Dorothy L. Sayers

no share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Dorothy L. Sayers

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

Dorothy L. Sayers

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

Dorothy L. Sayers

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Dorothy L. Sayers

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Donny Osmond

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

Donald O'Connor

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Donald Miller

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.