Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yogi Berra

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Yogi Berra

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Yogi Berra

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Yogi Berra

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Yogi Berra

I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

Winona Ryder

I feel my best when I'm happy.

Winston Churchill

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

Winston Churchill

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

Winston Churchill

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Winston Churchill

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Willie Morris

When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

William Zinsser

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.