Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

Francis Bacon

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francesca Annis

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

Fran Lebowitz

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

Fran Lebowitz

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Fran Lebowitz

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Fran Lebowitz

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Fran Lebowitz

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Fran Lebowitz

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Fran Lebowitz

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

Fran Lebowitz

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

George Orwell

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

George Mikes

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

George Mikes

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

George Mikes

A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

George Mikes

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

G. Gordon Liddy

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Chris Jericho

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

George W. Bush

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

George W. Bush

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

George W. Bush

They misunderestimated me.

George W. Bush

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

George W. Bush

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

George W. Bush

Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

George W. Bush

It's your money. You paid for it.

George W. Bush

Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.

George W. Bush

I think war is a dangerous place.