Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Alexander Pope

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

Alexander Pope

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Alexander Pope

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

Alexander Pope

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

Alexander Pope

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

Alexander Pope

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Jeanette Winterson

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

Yann Martel

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

Mary J. Blige

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Marshall McLuhan

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

Mark Harmon

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me

Mark Gatiss

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

Oswald Chambers

It must be God first, God second, and God third

Paul Henderson

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.