Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rowan Atkinson

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Ronald Reagan

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

Ronald Reagan

I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.

Ronald Reagan

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Ronald Reagan

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

Yukihiro Matsumoto

I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.

William Hague

I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.

William H. Macy

The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.

William Hazlitt

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

William Hazlitt

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

William Hazlitt

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Walter Matthau

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

Walter Matthau

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

Walter Mosley

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

Walter Raleigh

And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

W. Somerset Maugham

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

W. Somerset Maugham

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

W. Somerset Maugham

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Yoko Ono

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

Yoko Ono

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

Yani Tseng

Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.

Yani Tseng

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

Yakov Smirnoff

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!

Yakov Smirnoff

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Yakov Smirnoff

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

Yakov Smirnoff

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

Yakov Smirnoff

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Wyclef Jean

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.