Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Erica Jong

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Irving Kristol

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Indira Gandhi

Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.

J. Edgar Hoover

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

Kate Upton

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

Mel Brooks

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

Martin Amis

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Martin Amis

I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

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

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.

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

Madame de Stael

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

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.