Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Presley

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

Ellen Hopkins

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

Joan Baez

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

Lisa Kleypas

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening...

Leo Tolstoy

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Joyce Meyer

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!

Josephine Baker

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Paula Poundstone

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Peter Schiff

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Plato

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Madchen Amick

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Madame de Stael

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

John Dryden

One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

John Lyly

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

Karen Abbott

She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence.

Joyce Meyer

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!

Katharine Whitehorn

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.

Kate Spade

I adore pretty things & witty words.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Joyce Brothers

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Josh Billings

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Ouida

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Ouida

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

Pancho Villa

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

Moses Hadas

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

I have read your book and much like it.