Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Novak

She can do anything she wants in her house, ... But it is a gilded cage.

David Richards

Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900.

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

William Shakespeare

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

David Walliams

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

David Riesman

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

David Riesman

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

David Riesman

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

David Ricardo

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

David Henry Hwang

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

David Hewson

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

David Horowitz

For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.

David Hilbert

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

A. R. Ammons

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Julie Gerberding

You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,

Euripides

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Mitch Albom

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

M. Wolfe

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

Tracy Morgan

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

Doug White

We think we treat it (the increase) in the purest form. But it's also the most harsh.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Bryant H. McGill

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

Camille Paglia

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Benjamin Franklin

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

William Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Brother Lawrence

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Edmund Burke

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Donald Sutherland

We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.