Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries

David Eagleman

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

Angie Ridings

When you first get sober, drinking is all you can think about.

Linda McGlade

We thought that everything was OK. She was talking and drinking and eating.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Sigmund Freud

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

John Tillotson

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

John Stuart Blackie

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Joseph Addison

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

Jose Saramago

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Hector Hugh Munro

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Malcolm Muggeridge

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.