Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danish Proverb

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

Proverb Proverb

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

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.

Charles Churchill

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Diana Wynne Jones

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

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

Dar Williams

Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound?

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Jane Goodall

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

America Ferrera

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

Ovid

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sara Lewis

Unfortunately that wasn't done until 20 minutes into the call.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.