Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

William S. Burroughs

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

W. Somerset Maugham

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

William O. Douglas

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Joseph Addison

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Craig Rigsbee

I think it's about 3,300 yards, and he's already got, I think, 2,000, so he's got eight games to get 1,300 yards, which isn't out of the realm of possibility for him.

Chuck D.

I take full responsibility for this organization not winning in my eight years,

David Mulder

He'll be out between four and eight weeks. But six weeks would be a good guesstimate.

Dan Harmon

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.

Brian McCann

He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He just really knows how to pitch.

Frank Degen

He's going to lose on eight of them, because he's past the three-year statute.

Clay Hensley

I threw up about eight times on Sunday. It was tough today. I was a little weak.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

Ross Stitt

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.