Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

George Savile

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead

French Proverb

In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.

John Cleveland

The marigold, whose courtier's face echoes the sun, and doth unlace her at his rise, at his full stop packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.

William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Cowper

Now let us sing, Long live the king, / And Gilpin, long live he; / And when he next doth ride abroad, / May I be there to see!

Bible Bible

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

Mark Akenside

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

William Shakespeare

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

Andrew Marvell

he world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere

James Chu

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

Luis Sojo

He just said, 'I'm sorry, guys,' that's all, ... We said, 'It's not your fault. Get out of here, go home and forget about it.'

Juan Rincon

He's a really nice guy. I'm never going to forget (the home run), but I don't take it personal.

Alessandro Nesta

I think a thing like this you won't forget for a lifetime. Thirty seconds from the end and it all goes up in the air.

Niklas Lidstrom

I think sometimes at home we forget to pass. On the road we are more relaxed than at home and we give ourselves a chance. We are more patient on the road.

Mark Melancon

I will probably not forget this game for the rest of my life. That game is my fault. I take that on my shoulders.

Jim Caldwell

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

Mike Woodson

He's going to be missed for a long, long time. I don't want these guys to forget him. I don't want them to ever stop remembering him and what he was about. I think we all owe that to his legacy.

Hugh Johnson

There are no real hiding places, ... But I would tell investors they shouldn't get too scared by what's happening. Don't forget that 70 percent of the time, stocks are going up. I don't know where the market is going in 30 days, but I know where it's going in 30 years.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Donald Wildmon

I think the man wants to be the next Fidel Castro.

Rod Thorn

I think with Dajuan, he's obviously a very talented young man,

W. E. B. Du Bois

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

William Penn

Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

Henry George

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

Margaret Thatcher

Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

B. C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Julie Bishop

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

John Ortberg

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

David Schwimmer

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

Edward Gibbon

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William J. Clinton

Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

W. L. George

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Wilkie Collins

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Samuel Johnson

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

William Hazlitt

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.