Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Miller

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

Charles Kingsley

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Brittany Murphy

I do sarcasm really poorly.

Elbert Hubbard

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

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.

E. L. Konigsburg

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ambrose Bierce

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Tom Bodett

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Jonathan Swift

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Dalai Lama

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dodie Smith

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Desmond Tutu

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.