Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Georgette Heyer

Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Jhonen Vasquez

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Hannah Arendt

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Gore Vidal

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Gerhard Richter

It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

James Freeman Clarke

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Giacomo Casanova

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Giacomo Casanova

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Glenn Close

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

Jim Butcher

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Jessi Klein

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

Irvin S. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Irvin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Gloria Steinem

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Harry S Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

J. K. Rowling

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

Grant Morrison

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

George Herbert

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.