Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Bernard Baruch

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

George Gurdjieff

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

George Gurdjieff

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Jane Austen

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Neil Gaiman

I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.

George Stephenson

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

John Witherspoon

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Steve Squyres

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Leacock

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.