Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwayne Johnson

Sweet cream on an ice cream sandwich!

Christopher Morley

The plural of spouse is spice.

Christopher Morley

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Angelina Jolie

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Andrew Bogut

We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.

Andrew Carnegie

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Andrew Carnegie

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

Louis Agassiz

As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence.

Louis Agassiz

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.

Louis Agassiz

I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Lois Lowry

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Mao Zedong

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Dick Cavett

Great humorists are great insulters.