Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

Fran Lebowitz

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...

Franklin P. Adams

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

Jelly Roll Morton

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

George Eliot

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Fred Allen

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

George Herbert

Every one is witty for his owne purpose.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Chris Pine

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

George W. Bush

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.

George W. Bush

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

George Eliot

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Faye Wattleton

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Francis Bacon

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Jhonen Vasquez

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Hannah Arendt

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

George Burns

I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

George Bernard Shaw

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

George Bernard Shaw

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

David Garrick

I've that within - for which there are no plasters.

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Mark Bishop

Through witness interviews, we have two suspects, but as of yet, we have no descriptions.