Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Whately

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Richelle Mead

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Richard Baxter

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Richard Baxter

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Richard Baxter

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Rex Reed

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Rebecca West

Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

Russell Lynes

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

Russell Lynes

Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?

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.

Thomas Sydenham

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Thomas S. Monson

The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction, that we might chart and follow a wise and proper course. He whom we call our Heavenly Father will not leave our sincere petition unanswered.

Thomas S. Monson

As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us in our celebration of the Savior’s birth.

Thomas S. Monson

This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, His children, by bringing peace to the battlefield of war and comfort to the hearts of so many in this wonderful world where we live and which we call home

Thomas Sowell

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

Thomas Sowell

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

Robert H. Schuller

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Robert Greene

On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.

Robert Baden-Powell

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

Robert Anton Wilson

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.