Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.

Russell Lynes

Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

Russell Lynes

And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!

Russell Lynes

Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

Russell Lynes

I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?

Russell Lynes

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

Russell Lynes

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

Russell Lynes

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?

Russell Lynes

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

Russell Lynes

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Russell Lynes

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

Russell Lynes

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice...

Russell Lynes

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

Rose McIver

I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.

Ron Atkinson

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

Ron Atkinson

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

Umberto Eco

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Umberto Eco

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Umberto Eco

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come...

Umberto Eco

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Tryon Edwards

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Troy Polamalu

The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.

Richard DeVos

One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

Raymond Chandler

The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.

Reinhold Niebuhr

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Reinhold Niebuhr

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Rick Warren

Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

Rick Warren

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Paracelsus

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

Paramahansa Yogananda

forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise...

Owen D. Young

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

Ovid

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.