Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

Winston Churchill

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

Winston Churchill

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

Walter Raleigh

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

Wynonna Judd

Without love in you life, you have nothing.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Marcel Proust

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

Joseph Addison

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

Kenneth Grahame

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

Henry A. Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Laurence J. Peter

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

Johnny Vegas

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

Lord Chesterfield

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Eric Idle

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Christopher Hitchens

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

Mindy Kaling

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Joseph Joubert

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Moliere

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Kris Carr

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

Mark Twain

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Psy

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Oscar Wilde

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

Patrick Rothfuss

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Leigh Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.