Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Kasparov

... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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.

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.

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.

Louise Jameson

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Lord Chesterfield

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Fred Thompson

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood

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

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!

Madame de Stael

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

Lord Chesterfield

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Maya Angelou

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

Matthew McConaughey

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Edith Hamilton

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.