Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Foglia

You're going to be awakened. You're going to work a day, and then your evenings are your own personal time.

Jane Austen

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.

James Beattie

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

John Morrison

Kelly had a very good swim. It's the fastest she has been in the event in several years. Our goal was for her to make it back to the evening session, but to miss by just one spot is still a great achievement.

Samuel Richardson

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Walter Savage Landor

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

Carson Daly

I just think the world of (him). The rich history of this evening is important to me.

Ed Pultz

I just think, in the playoffs, it's a matter of executing. Every team comes in even and you start thinking about the seeding and you have to look at that one evening (game) and only that one evening and not past that point.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

O.J. Mayo

For me, this second trip to state was about pride, so it was a little harder. Everyone expects us to be there.

Clint Myers

She's going to be a great hitter for the next four years. She expects it and we like it so it's working out a lot for everybody.

Dennis Smith

He sets the tone for everyone. He's a leader and he expects everyone else to step up to the plate just like he does.

Charlie Smith

Nobody expects nothing out of us. It's been a struggle. We had 14 kids to play two games today. Sure, the split hurts, but I've got kids who are playing hard.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it). Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Stephen Greenblatt

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

David Cronenberg

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Thomas Paine

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Victor Borge

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

Mason Cooley

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

Gail Godwin

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

George Herbert

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

Jena Malone

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.