Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debbie Macomber

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Anna Camp

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

Thomas Browne

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Regina Brett

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Mason Cooley

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Francis Bacon

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Griffin Dunne

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Honore de Balzac

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Sarah West

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

Anthony Trollope

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Elbert Hubbard

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Ann Coulter

Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason...Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.

Clare Boothe Luce

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Anthony Horowitz

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Thomas More

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Susan Faludi

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Stonewall Jackson

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up on the pursuit.

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Bryant H. McGill

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Alexander Pope

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Donna Leon

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Daniel Inouye

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.