Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Charles Dickens

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Eartha Kitt

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Bear Grylls

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Shannon Kleibrink

We struggled with our weight all game. The ice was perfect. I love the ice here. We've had two picks all tournament. Today we just didn't throw right.

Bill Murray

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

J. J. Johnson

We have never been on the track this early. There are always six inches of ice out there.

Charles M. Schulz

Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

Bob Hartley

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

Dallas Drake

Until you get to step on the ice with him every day, you don't realize how much he puts into it.

Bernard Levin

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

David Shuster

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

Aristophanes

A fox is subtlety itself.

Donna Mills

One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

D. B. Sweeney

I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

Ambrose Bierce

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Simon Hoggart

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

Robert Altman

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.