Famous Quotes


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Francoise Sagan

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Anonymous

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may thinkaloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Jerome Cummings

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglas

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiapirelli

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Barbarella

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman, British actress

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
Anonymous

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan nextweek.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney Goff

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Kin Hubbard