Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Daniel Kahneman

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

D. H. Lawrence

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

Confucius

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Confucius

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Confucius

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Confucius

It is better to play than do nothing.

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Dean Koontz

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

Coco Chanel

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Coco Chanel

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Billy Carter

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Boris Pasternak

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

George Mikes

If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.

Jeff Gordon

I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Samuel Goldwyn

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.