Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Charles Dickens

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Audre Lorde

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

William Shakespeare

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

William Shakespeare

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

William Shakespeare

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Jamie Zawinski

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

St. Aurelius Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.

Samuel Johnson

My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o

Mark Twain

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

Joseph Joubert

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Lord Byron

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

Woody Allen

Chastity is curable, if detected early.