Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly

William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.

Kate Christensen

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

Eric Idle

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Sophie Hannah

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Lewis Thomas

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

William Carman

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, That lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

Denise Lewis

I was more than contented with the international award, but before I had recovered from that shock I was up there again.

Juvenal

No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Horace

For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.

Bertrand Russel

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Bible Bible

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

James A. Moore

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

David Sedaris

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Erin McKean

A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

Drew Brees

Me and Gates, we laughed in the weight room today because that wasn't our 'A' game,

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Chris Collins

We laughed over a new mobile phone which neither of us could make work.

Alan King

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Damien Hirst

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Manolo Saiz

Someone laughed at me when I said it, but I think that Roberto is a rider for second efforts.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.