Quotes by Authors - Page 191

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?
Jay Leno
I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.
Anonymous
Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
Phillips Brooks
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Thomas à Kempis
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Anonymous
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.
Valerius Maximus
The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?
Thomas Jefferson
It's a long time between drinks.
Anonymous
It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.
Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald
An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.
Sean O'Faolain
Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
Hugh Hood
Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.
John Erskine
In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
Pliny the Elder
First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Till the day when I'll be going down that Long long trail with you.
Stoddard King
For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.
Samuel Lover
If there were dreams to sell Merry and sad to tell And the crier rung his bell What would you buy?
T. L. Beddoes
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
Bernie S. Siegel
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Kerrigan
Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
Alexandre Dumas
Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith
When one devotes oneself to meditation mental burdens unnecessary worries and wandering thoughts drop off one by one life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition second thought with its dualism doubt and hesitation does not arise.
Nyogen Senzaki
When nothing is sure everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.
Jill Trenary
Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.
Lillian Carter
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.
Zora Neale Hurston
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Elizabeth Bowen
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Not seeing is half-believing.
Vita Sackville-West
The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.
Mark Rutherford
If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.
André Gide
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
Anonymous
The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.
Mark Rutherford
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
George Eliot
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John E. Kennedy
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Samuel Butler
I'm often wrong but never in doubt.
Ivy Baker Priest
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Edgar Watson Howe
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Eric Hoffer
We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.
Barbara Ward
We are not certain we are never certain.
Albert Camus
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
Our lives are never certain even for an hour.
Ferrant Sanchez Calavera
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
Rose Macaulay