Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Henry IV

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Jeffrey Herman

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

Charles Baudelaire

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

Blaise Pascal

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Bruce Sterling

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Edward Gibbon

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Elizabeth I

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

Nhat Hanh

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Tom Fleming

I thought it was the right decision. It's a monkey off our backs.

Jamee Juarez

(Hitting) is very contagious. It's kind of like monkey see, monkey do.

Chris Avellone

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Mario Maddy

We've taken the monkey off our back. Now, Sandpoint is beatable.

Alan Garner

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Ben Bradlee

You never monkey with the truth.

Bob Dylan

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.