Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beatrix Potter

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

William Shakespeare

All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

Elizabeth Montagu

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Edsel Ford

There are no crown princes at Ford,

Juvenal

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Juvenal

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

Juvenal

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

Caitlin Thomas

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

Benjamin Franklin

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

John Shin

We feel that such a possibility is still a long way off, but it is a development that bears watching.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Parker

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Chris Burke

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Eddie Murphy

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I want to be different from anyone ever.

Charlie Munger

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

Billy West

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.