Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Ben Lindsey

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Anna Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Alain Rene Le Sage

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Thomas Fuller

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, where better is expected

Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Arthur C. Clarke

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Dylan Moran

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.

Dylan Moran

I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and that was where you get something and you melt cheese over it and the first one to guess what it is doesn't have to wash up. That's obviously quite Mediterranean; the other one was less complex. It was just called 'cheese fantasy.' That's where you come in, very drunk, at about five in the morning and find an apple and just pretend there's some cheese on it.

e. e. cummings

-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.

E. B. White

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

E. B. White

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

E. B. White

I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

E. B. White

It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

E. B. White

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.