Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Benjamin Franklin

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Arthur Eddington

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

Baltasar Gracian

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Diana Vreeland

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

Bob Dylan

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Barbara Cartland

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Aristophanes

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Edmund Burke

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Dian Fossey

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Denise Mina

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Ed Helms

As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Edna Ferber

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

Augustus Hare

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Auguste Rodin

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Carl von Clausewitz

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Elizabeth I

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Ayn Rand

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Andy Borowitz

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.