Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

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.

Kathy Reichs

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Oriana Fallaci

I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York....

Eric Idle

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

Emo Philips

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

James Thurber

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Ellen Page

It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies.

Ellen Page

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

Tony Benn

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Lily Tomlin

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Les Dawson

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

Terry Pratchett

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Seymour Cray

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

Seymour Cray

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

Seymour Cray

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Larry David

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

Plato

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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.

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

The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.