Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Dickens

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

Charles Dickens

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Charles Dickens

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

Charles Dickens

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Charles Dickens

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Charles Simmons

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Alan Moore

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

David Riesman

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Gina Barreca

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

Bill Murray

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Carolyn Wells

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Agnes Repplier

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Agnes Repplier

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Beverly Cleary

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

Eileen collins

It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.

Francis Clines

A mass of Victorian wiles and granite that resembles a battleship in the rain and a wedding cake in the sun.

Ken Misiak

This has been 20 some down here, maybe 30 years that I've been coming here. Every year is special. This is like icing on the cake for your kids who worked hard all year. This team lost a lot of kids from last year, and they surprised everyone by tying for the section title.

Isaiah Dahlman

This is the icing on the cake to a career I could only dream of.

John Gerard

Otemeale is good for to make a faire and wel colored maid to looke like a cake of tallow

Zhang Yansheng

The small-sized refrigerators we specially designed and manufactured for American consumers to store wine are sold like hot cakes in the United States,

Tom Evans

I usually make the Derby cake and they use a lot of my recipes for the other food we serve, but somebody else makes them now. I used to cook more but after my health declined, I had to cut back.