Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Miller

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

Elbert Hubbard

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Allan Sloan

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Ambrose Bierce

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Mae West

I've been things and seen places.

Mae West

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

Mae West

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Mae West

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Mae West

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Ayn Rand

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.