Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Truman Capote

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Woody Allen

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Woody Allen

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

Woody Allen

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

Robyn Carr

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Virginia Woolf

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

Samuel Goldwyn

They stayed away in droves.

Samuel Goldwyn

Keep a stiff upper chin.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

George Herbert

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Roald Dahl

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Venus Williams

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, they will come.

Yogi Berra

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.

Neale Donald Walsch

If I do not go within, I go without.

Miles Davis

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Kevin Bacon

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

Kelley Armstrong

If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here

Kelley Armstrong

If it gets too bad, go. I’ll understand.” I won’t.