Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Donnie Brasco Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welsh is one great piece of ass, forget about it. But then, if you disagree, like A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac Forget about it you know But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like mingia peppers, forget about it. But it's also like saying Go to hell too. Like, you know, like Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker and Paulie says Forget about it Sometimes it just means forget about it

Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the good guy.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Paul: Hey Benji! Wake up! Benji: I'm naked. Paul: Okay. Want some hamburgers?

Paul's Law: In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls 'grace' from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call 'rigtheousness.'

Karen: "I'm f**king poor!" Paul: "Well, it's better to be f**king poor than not to be f**king at all.

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?

I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.

Paul Revere was a tattle-tale

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

The first time Paul B. got drunk, and he was regretting it: Paul to Greg: "Beat me up!" Greg: "Pick you up?" Paul: "No, BEAT me up! Pass me out!

Jeremy: "But giraffes aren't belligerent!" Paul: "Yeah, but if you rubber-banded them to something they might be!

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Paul Revere was a tattle-tale.

Ordering dinner at Denny's: Jen: "Can I get a French Dip?" Paul B: "Bon jour! Uh Hyuh!

In a dorm at UW, beer and rum bottles everywhere.... A knock at the door. Greg whispers, "It's the cops!" Paul B. shouts at the door, "Nobody here but us chipmunks!

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans, openly inviting, breasts falling free and shameless and feeling no apparent obligation to smile, look pleasant or keep their voices low. And how they live! Just look at them to know how! If a man doesn't bring them to orgasm, they look for another who does. If by mistake they fall pregnant, they abort by vacuum aspiration. If they don't like the food, they push the plate away. If the job doesn't suit them, they hand in their notice. They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

Yes, Paul, we'll use hurricanes to transfer our data.

For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. [Acts 26:24]

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.