Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Peter When I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

Peter's Law of Substitution: Look after the molehills, and the mountains will look after themselves.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

If I were a martini, I would like to be drunk by Peter O'Toole, circa 1967.

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.

This is a free country, madam. We have the right to share your privacy in a public place.

Why did I fall for him? He had a Tommy Lee Jones smile and sounded like Peter O'Toole with a double dose of testosterone and a southern accent.

...the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

My Peter Pan existence is being threatened!

If Pete fails the test, he'll look like a sucker and end up waxing floors like Cecil Tucker

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

He thinks he is super cool and suave, but really he's a cornball [on Peter Parker]

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

Ring Announcer What's your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That's it The Human Spider That's the best you've got Peter Yeah. Ring Announcer Well that sucks.

Peter Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

Peter So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.