Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Charles Caleb Colton

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Alexander Pope

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Dale Carnegie

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Oliver J. Lodge

People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity.

Tommy Caldwell

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

Junichiro Koizumi

Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea,

Germaine Greer

I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'.

Robert Lantos

It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,

Sir Eddington

I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!

George Soros

The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.'

Anatole France

The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it

George Osborne

The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.