Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Demi Moore

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Pat Riley

We're a winning team. Right now, that's all we are.

William Shakespeare

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

William Shakespeare

Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

William Shakespeare

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

William Shakespeare

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

William Shakespeare

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

William Shakespeare

Good wine needs no bush.

William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

William Shakespeare

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

William Shakespeare

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

William Shakespeare

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

William Shakespeare

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

William Shakespeare

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

We knew, win or lose, that we would play another game.

Ben Wallace

We know you can't win a championship in December. We've been there before.

Don Cheadle

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Diane Setterfield

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

Dhani Jones

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

David Agus

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

Abraham Lincoln

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

There are too many things going wrong for us to win this game.

We're just getting better at winning with the turnovers.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

Alexandre Dumas

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Richard G. Scott

Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.

Brian Eno

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Brent Weeks

Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Branch Rickey

First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.