Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Mark Elston

They've got 14 seniors. They're enormous. They have three lineman who are well over 300 pounds and they have some quick secondary people.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Kendra Wilkinson

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Bruce Dickinson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Chris Ullman

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Sun Ra

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Ray Bradbury

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Matthew Arnold

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Nick Harkaway

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Mortimer Adler

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.