Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect

Will Rogers

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Rudyard Kipling

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Ken Wilber

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.

Karl Lagerfeld

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Sandy Gallin

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

Virginia Woolf

All extremes are dangerous.

Stephen LaDue

You will see a moderation in some markets.

Ellen Glasgow

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Oscar Wilde

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Helen Suzman

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Sean Astin

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.