Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Demetri Martin

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Demetri Martin

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

Damon Runyon

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Meg Mallon

Betsy King has been retiring for 25 years. It's funny when golfers say that. When you start thinking about what else you can do, you realize there's nothing better than what we do.

Joe Viterelli

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

Randy Winn

Even more so -- and it's genuine. He's always laughing, telling stories. He's pretty funny.

Adam McKay

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Ben Jonson

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Bob Dylan

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

George W. Bush

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Sasha Azevedo

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Roger Moore

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.