Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

Part with your head, but not with your secret.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

African Proverbs

We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

C. S. Lewis

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Bernard Berenson

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Arsene Wenger

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Al Gore

Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

Charles Babbage

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Philip Hoffman

But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Peter Higgs

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.