Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.

Thomas Hobbes

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Thomas Kretschmann

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Umberto Eco

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Truman Capote

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Trevor Hall

It's just seems life without music would be death.

Madchen Amick

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Madame de Stael

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Ouida

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Ouida

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Saint Augustine

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

Saint Augustine

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Saint Augustine

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Winston Churchill

Science should be on tap, not on top.

Winston Churchill

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

Will Rogers

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

W. C. Fields

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

W. C. Fields

I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

W. C. Fields

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Zayn Malik

Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.

Zayn Malik

Get on with life because life gets on without you.

Samuel Johnson

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

William Holden

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Virginia Woolf

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire

A witty quote proves nothing.

Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

William Styron

Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.

Walter Savage Landor

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.