Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

David Cronenberg

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Confucius

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

Ambrose Bierce

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Albert Camus

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Thomas Paine

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Victor Hugo

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Victor Borge

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

George Herbert

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Bai Ling

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Jane Austen

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Dennis Weaver

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

Dean Smith

You should just do the right thing.