Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

We have so many disagreements, I know you're not going to take me at my word on anything.

Boris Becker

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Benjamin Hoff

"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

But this is a formality. I don?t like the words ?slam dunk,? but it?s pretty much a given.

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

Lord Kelvin

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Joe Torre

We didn't use the word love, but it was pretty warm. It was something more than cordial.

Aristotle

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Aristotle

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Aristotle

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Aristotle

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Abraham Lincoln

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Andrew Motion

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

I think there's a one word summary out of this thing: War.

Ron Moody

He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect.