Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Brothers

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Josh Billings

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Kate Spade

I adore pretty things & witty words.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Lisa Kleypas

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening...

Leo Tolstoy

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Louise Jameson

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Lord Chesterfield

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

Lord Chesterfield

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Fred Thompson

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood

John Dryden

One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

John Lyly

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

Elvis Presley

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

Ellen Hopkins

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

Joan Baez

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

T. S. Eliot

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Sydney J. Harris

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Susan Sontag

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Robyn Carr

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Rob Brydon

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

Richelle Mead

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

Richelle Mead

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it’s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I’m biased.

Rita Rudner

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Thomas More

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.

Thomas Browne

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

Tina Fey

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.

Tina Fey

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

Tina Fey

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Tina Fey

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

Tina Fey

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)