Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Robert Jordan

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

William Hazlitt

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

William Hazlitt

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

Marcel Proust

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

Joseph Addison

As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.

Joseph Addison

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

Joseph Addison

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Albert Einstein

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

Play is the highest from of research.

Albert Einstein

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Albert Einstein

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Alexander Ovechkin

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa,

Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander Pope

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Donald Miller

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Donald Miller

To change the world you'll need a pen.

Don Richardson

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.