Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Noam Chomsky

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

Kenneth Tynan

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.

Ovid

Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Moliere

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Quintus Ennius

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

Henry Steele Commager

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Bill Watterson

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Pete Vasil

I thought there were opportunities for us, but we had trouble finishing.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Tom Curle

He's getting to the rim, but he's still having trouble elevating, which is frustrating for him.

Samuel Johnson

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

Wayne Dyer

It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Tony Yayo

You know I'm always in trouble.

Warren G. Bennis

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Winston Churchill

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

Steve Waugh

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.