Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

Aristophanes

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Aristophanes

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Aristophanes

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Aristophanes

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Aristophanes

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Antonio Davis

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Antonio Porchia

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Anzia Yezierska

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Anzia Yezierska

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

Bruce Jenner

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Bruce Lee

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Bruce Lee

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Brother Lawrence

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

Bridget Fonda

I dont talk about who Im dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

Edmund Spenser

Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.

Edmund Spenser

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

Edmund Spenser

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

Ai Weiwei

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Bobby Bowden

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.

Bobby Bowden

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

Bob Mould

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

Bob Monkhouse

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

Bob Newhart

One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

Bob Newhart

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

Billy Joe Saunders

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

Billy Herman

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

Bill Parcells

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

Bill Parcells

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

Bill Joy

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Bill Joy

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.