Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

William Saroyan

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

William Morris

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

William James

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Matt Lawton

I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.

Charles Saint-Evremond

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Robert Burns

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

Italian Proverb

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor

Steve Rucchin

It's embarrassing. A lot of guys need to take a look in the mirror and quit taking those foolish penalties, which has been a problem all season long. It's going to have to stop in a hurry.

Saskya Pandita

A foolish man proclaimeth his qualifications; a wise man keepeth them secret within himself.

Billy Beane

It would be malpractice not to do research. Of course, it would also be malpractice to make a foolish trade.

Lawrence Krauss

In science there often aren't two sides. You know, gravity works.

Josh Billings

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

O. Henry

The moon buggy is lighter in space because there's less gravity there.

Arthur C. Clarke

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Albert Einstein

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

Isaac Newton

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Irwin Cotler

Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,