Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

H. G. Wells

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ...

H. L. Mencken

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

H. L. Mencken

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

Guillermo del Toro

When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

Greg LeMond

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

Greg LeMond

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

Gilbert Parker

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

George Herbert

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

George Herbert

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

George Herbert

Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

George Herbert

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

George Herbert

Wine ever paies for his loding.

George Herbert

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

George Herbert

To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

George Herbert

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

George Herbert

The life of man is a winter way.

George Herbert

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

George Herbert

One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.

George Herbert

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

George Herbert

It is better to have wings then hornes.

George Herbert

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

George Herbert

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

George Herbert

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Geoffrey Zakarian

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread.

I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.

Gene Mauch

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Gene Fowler

News is history shot on the wing.

Gary Johnson

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Gary Hamel

Win small, win early, win often.