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.

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.

Augustus Hare

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

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

Lord Northcliffe

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Jenifer Lewis

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

Homer

And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs

J. K. Rowling

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

George Herbert

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

Jerry Cantrell

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again..

Jaclyn Smith

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

George Bancroft

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Jacob Zuma

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

Henry Rollins

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.