Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Eddington

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

Baltasar Gracian

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Diana Vreeland

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

Ricky Gervais

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Bob Dylan

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Diane Johnson

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

Denis Diderot

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Elizabeth I

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Brandon Sanderson

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Augustus Hare

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Auguste Rodin

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Aristotle

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Aristotle

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Ayn Rand

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Andy Borowitz

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

William Shakespeare

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Adrienne Rich

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Jandy Nelson

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?