Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

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

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.

Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Matt Groening

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

Oscar Wilde

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Madonna Ciccone

For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime.

Michel de Montaigne

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Psy

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Margaret Atwood

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Margaret Thatcher

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

Mark Twain

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

Mark Twain

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Oscar Wilde

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

Patrick Rothfuss

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Oscar Wilde

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Oscar Wilde

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

Irvin S. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Irvin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.