Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

Oswald Chambers

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Quintilian

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Samuel Johnson

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Friedrich Schiller

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Eli Manning

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Lord Kelvin

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

David Burnett

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Edgar Quinet

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.