Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

The Pursuit of Happiness,-Will Smith

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

I'm excited every week, with all the things that happened to me last year. I'm happy just to be playing.

Joe: What is known as the United States' attic? Andy: Massachusetts? Joe: No, the Smithsonian. (Later...) Andy: What was the name of Barbara Walters' first television partner? Joe: Jack Dempsey?;"During a game of Trivial Pursuit at 2 in the morning.

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Talk is cheap. But if it keeps your stomach full and your grave empty, it's worth more than gold" -Mike Smith

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?-Adam Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.Adam Smith

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is ''I will see you in the vestry after service.''

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.