Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maisie Williams

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Aarti Sequeira

I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Jack Bruce

I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really.

Charles Caleb

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom

Darrin Cody

They go with everything from jeans to a fancy outfit.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

William Shakespeare

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

Thomas H. Huxley

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental

Princess Anne

To a lot of people they really are just follies but this one is much more interesting and it gives a wonderful view.

Mike Harris

No one thought the (Fabulous Palm Springs) Follies would do as well as it has (when it opened 10 years ago). I'm not sure they (Cirque Dreams) will be full every night, but ... it's going to be good for the merchants.

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,

Greg Boyle

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

Jane March

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Paul Valery

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Edward M. Lerner

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

Rebecca Taylor

Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.