Quotes by Authors - Page 51

Here's to one of the most beautiful kind thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.
Anonymous
I'd like to thank the committee that brought this event about. It was an equal endeavor. They did the food decorations and reservations and I did the traffic flow.
Wendy Morgan
I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.
Anonymous
It is always dullest before the yawn.
Bob Phillips
Remember if God had wanted this to be perfect he never would have had me up here.
Anonymous
I love a finished speaker I really truly do. I don't mean one who's polished I just mean one who's through.
Anonymous
There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.
Anonymous
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Martin H. Fischer
Nouvelle cuisine roughly translated means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."
Mike Kalin
A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.
Patricia Jasper Clark
If Noah found himself back on Earth you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.
Anonymous
A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.
Anonymous
Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.
Anonymous
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Adam was the only man who when he said a good thing knew that nobody had said it before him.
Mark Twain
A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Some people speak from experience while others from experience don't speak.
Anonymous
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Anonymous
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school everybody hated me.
Anonymous
I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious no matter what it costs.
Art Buchwald
I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today but you will be a great deal older.
Melvin Helitzer
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.
Douglas Jerrold
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde
If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E B White
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. M. Taylor
There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.
John Neale
Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Sam Goldwyn
Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.
Noël Coward
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
Art Buchwald
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers
Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic facts and reason it emphasizes personality rather than issues.
Hedrick Smith
Oh! would I were dead now Or up in my bed now To cover my head now And have a good cry!
Thomas Hood
Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.
Bret Harte
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Anonymous
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Gloria Steinem
The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.
Virginia Woolf
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
Anonymous
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
A high-school teacher after all is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in and to defend if possible the part their elders are playing in it.
Entile Capouya
If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.
Anonymous
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
J. F. Boyse
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Haliburton
Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. Raymond
The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
John Marshall
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
Anonymous
My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
George Ade
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Thomas Jefferson
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.
Malcolm Muggeridge