Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. T. Barnum

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

P. J. O'Rourke

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

P. G. Wodehouse

I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

P. G. Wodehouse

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

P. G. Wodehouse

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

Ovid

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

Ovid

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Ovid

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

Ovid

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

Ovid

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Paul Newman

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Newman

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Broun

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Brooks

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Paul Begala

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Marya Mannes

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Mary Hart

We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.

Mary J. Blige

Larry David makes me laugh.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Martha Graham

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

Martha Graham

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

Martha Beck

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Marshall McLuhan

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

Marshall McLuhan

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Mark Gatiss

We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

Mark Hamill

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

Mark Helprin

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Mark Helprin

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.