Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

J. K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Erma Bombeck

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Mark Twain

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

P. D. James

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Jon Foreman

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

W. H. Auden

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

St. Jerome

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Jeff Garlin

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

Felipe Alou

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Alonzo Mourning

We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.

Marquis de Lafayette

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

Joshua Johnson

We have a lot of talent for a nonscholarship team. People just don't understand. They're thinking, 'nonscholarship, I-AA, midmajor.' Don't let that fool you. This is a whole other level. It doesn't get better than this.

H. Hart

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

Uzi Landau

Who is the Palestinian fool who will sit in negotiations and will have to pay so that we evacuate territory, when he knows if he simply waits, Israel will evacuate the territory?

Charles Rogers

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

John Paxson

You can have a team full of guys who play hard and hustle, ... But let's not fool ourselves. You need talent to win.

Casper Dien

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.