Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

George Saintsbury

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Indian Proverb

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

Christian Nevel Bovee

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Helen Keller

''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Don McKinnon

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

Ed Morgan

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Hani Durzy

We made some suggestions that fell on deaf ears - that tells you about the motivations of people who support the bill.

Jewish Proverb

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Janie Bess

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

Michael Jackson

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Zane Grey

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.