Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

I was able to put away my opportunities and that is something I am happy about,-Anthony Allen

Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

It's what you ARE that your people learn, not what you do deliberately. What parents do deliberately probably makes almost no difference in whether their children grow up to be happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, good or evil. My guess is that the same dynamic occurs in management, and leadership. That's why the technology of management, like the technology of parenting is such a blind alley, or worse, such a wrong turn, taking us to a place we shouldn't be going.

8-year-old Molly: Mommie I have a headache. Mommie: Oh, I'm sorry. Why do you have a headache? 8-year-old Molly: I don't know. It's winter. Maybe I am allergic to falling down in the snow.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?;"Ralph Emerson

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

You can take all the impact that science considerations have on funding decisions at NASA, put them in the navel of a flea, and have room left over for a caraway seed and Tony Calio's heart.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?-Woody Allen

Fred Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!-Henri Frederic Amiel

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.

California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.