Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Sinatra

Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

Fergus Henderson

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Fernando Pessoa

Life is good, but Wine is better.

Felicity Huffman

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Felicity Kendal

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

Felix Baumgartner

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

Felix Baumgartner

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

Feist

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker...

Fay Weldon

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Fay Weldon

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Fantasia Barrino

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

Ezra Taft Benson

Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?

Ezra Taft Benson

I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

Eugene O'Neill

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

Euripides

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Euripides

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Francis Beaumont

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Francesco Guicciardini

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Francis Bacon

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Erykah Badu

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

Erin Hunter

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

Flavia Pennetta

Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

Flavor Flav

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Fidel Castro

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Henning Mankell

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

Henning Mankell

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Henny Youngman

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner....

Henri Frederic Amiel

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Helen Keller

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Cat Stevens

I listen to the wind, the wind of my soul.

Cate Blanchett

I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

Cassandra Clare

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.