Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

I'm just an average guy. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either.

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

He would make a lovely corpse.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.

Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

"At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!-Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today. Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.

Charles: "I am the Harbinger of Doom!" Jimmy: "What do you do?" Charles: "May I iron your nose please?

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charlotte: What did you see on my webpage? Me: Purple writing. Charlotte: It's blue. Me: Purple, blue, same color!

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title, James Spalding, or Charles Budgeon, and the passengers going the opposite way could read nothing at all -- save ''a man with a red moustache,'' ''a young man in gray smoking a pipe.''

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay