Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Bob Dylan

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

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.

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.

Jandy Nelson

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

Carl von Clausewitz

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Barbara Cartland

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Aristophanes

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Edmund Burke

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Colin Quinn

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

Annie Baker

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

D. J. MacHale

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

Clifton Fadiman

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.