Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

This is history written in lightning.

Valerie Jarrett

Put yourself in the path of lightning,

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Dirk Kempthorne

Every night we have 40 to 50 new lightning strikes; 95 percent of those are being extinguished before they get started,

Robert Rhodes

It was a frustrating tournament because of the weather. Rain and lightning were the problems on Sunday and Monday. But, thank goodness, we got all the matches in.

Ovid

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Si Robertson

Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

Phyllis Bottome

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Rod Slings

Knowing it is, in fact, a turkey, by positively identifying the beard and spurs of a turkey, and knowing what is behind the target is key. Think about who you go hunting with - it's people close to you: your family and your friends. Practice safe hunting. The ultimate goal is for everyone to get home at the end of the day.

E. B. White

He'd have mattress ticking in his beard and in his hair.

Jane Marshall

He'd grown a beard since I last saw him. I asked, 'what's with that?' He said it was the caveman look.

Christiane Amanpour

His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I'll keep growing it for the playoffs. The beard is part of the body and any contact should be a foul.

Ben Roethlisberger

I'll make the stakes even higher. Jake Plummer, let's make this a 'beard versus beard' match. The loser must shave his beard with a rusty straight razor.

Edward Lear

There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard

Tom Giacchi

It's really funny to have this beard, you know, I have never really had one before in my life. My beard now has gotten really, really long, to the point that it tickles my ears. I made a promise to Carl that I would shave everything off right there in Victory Lane.

Irish Proverbs

Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail.

Michael Winner

I think it's rather an insult to dogs. Men are awful: arrogant, nasty creatures.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Umberto Eco

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

W. C. Fields

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Maureen Brunt

You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.