Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Heenan

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.

Benjamin Franklin

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Benjamin Franklin

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Benjamin Franklin

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Benjamin Franklin

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

Benjamin Franklin

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

Benjamin Franklin

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

Barbra Streisand

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

Avicenna

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

Arthur Brisbane

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

Arthur Balfour

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

Bela Lugosi

I never drink... wine.

Bela Lugosi

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Barry Sanders

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

Baltasar Gracian

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Baltasar Gracian

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Asa Gray

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Asa Gray

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

Arundhati Roy

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

Arianna Huffington

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

Anthony Trollope

A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.

Anthony Trollope

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

Diana Vreeland

A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Derrick Brooks

You can pick any game and there are two or three plays that determine whether you win or lose, going either way. That's the beauty of the league, man. Every game counts, no matter who you're playing or what their record is.

Derrick Rose

My biggest thing is to improve my all-around game. If you don't win, something's wrong. Winning takes care of everything, so our biggest thing is winning.

Desiderius Erasmus

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

Desiderius Erasmus

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.