Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away...

William Shakespeare

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

William Shakespeare

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

William Shakespeare

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

William Shakespeare

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

William Shakespeare

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

William Shakespeare

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

Al Pacino

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Anthony Trollope

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Daniel Handler

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Brother Lawrence

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

Carey Mulligan

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

Abraham Verghese

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

Dodie Smith

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

William Shakespeare

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Jay Asher

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

Heber J. Grant

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

Ezra Pound

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.