Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

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

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.

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.

Mark Twain

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

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.

J. K. Rowling

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

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.

Tipper Gore

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

Michael Pena

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

G. H. Hardy

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

Felipe Alou

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

Patrick Surtain

I was just thinking about it yesterday, wondering if I'm going to get fooled or not, ... It's going to help me somewhat because I know what those guys can do and I know some of their releases, but they're in a totally different offense. In one respect, it will (help me), but in another, they run totally different routes now.

Chad Epperson

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

Richard O'Brien

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Richard P. Feynman

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Robertson Davies

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Washington Allston

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Anthony Hsieh

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.