Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danish Proverb

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Dean Koontz

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

Donald Trump

You have to leave all your options open. And if you don't leave your options open, you're a fool.

T. Boone Pickens

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

Ray Lewis

Only a fool trips on what’s behind them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Michael Schoenfeld

This is a very serious situation. It's an aberration, but it's a serious situation.

David Grey

This is a very serious situation, and getting worse.

John Dipko

This is a very serious matter. We have zero tolerance for this and for that type of behavior.

Shelden Williams

It wasn't serious basketball. We just put on a show for the fans.

Al Madrigal

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Edward Snowden

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Jason Williams

We feel like we can not just get there to the finals. We feel like we can get there and win it.

Reggie White

(Favre) did what he had to do to win the game. He made the play, and he won one for us. Him and Sterling, today, they won it for us.