Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom Quotes

- “Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.” – Adrienne Gusoff

- “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie

- “Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein

- “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein

- “Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” – Unknown

- “You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.” – Unknown

- “The four most important words in any marriage…«I’ll do the dishes.»” – Unknown

- “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown

- “Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way.” – Unknown

- “When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires.” – Unknown

- “Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say!” – Unknown

- “You can’t buy love on eBay.” – Unknown

- “If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?” – Bette Midler

- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

- “Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” – Cathy Carlyle

- “Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.” – Cecilia Egan

- “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.” – Cher

- “Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.” – Cher

- “By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying -
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying.” – Dorothy Parker

- “I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.” – Dudley Moore

- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck

- “Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” – Fran Lebowitz

- “It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon

- “Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” – Fulton J. Sheen

- “Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.” – George Carlin

- “Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.” – Glenn Beck

- “I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx

- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” – Helen Rowland

- “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” – Henry Kissinger

- “When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.
And she never did.” – James Fineous McBride

- “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” – Jean Kerr

- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

- “It’s been so long since I made love,
I can’t even remember who gets tied up.” – Joan Rivers

- “Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.” – Joan Rivers

- “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll

- “No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.” – Joyce Brothers

- “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn

- “True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.” – La Rochefoucauld

- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.” – Lily Tomlin

- “The only people who make love all the time are liars.” – Louis Jordan

- “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” – Natalie Wood

- “Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.” – Oscar Wilde

- “Love is a grave mental disease.” – Plato

- “Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with?” – Rita Rudner

- “Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.” – Sandra J. Dykes

- “All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.” – Shelley Winters

- “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” – Steve Martin

- “A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.” – Thomas Hardy

- “Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions.” – Tommy Dewar

- “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham

- “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney

- “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.” – Woody Allen

- “The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.” – Woody Allen

- “Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.” – Woody Allen

- “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

- “Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson

- “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith

- “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase

- “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens

- “Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.” – W.J. Cameron

- “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis

- “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!” – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

- “There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.” – W.J. Cameron

- “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.” – Walter Scott

- “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

- “May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” – Unknown

- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

- “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

- “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving

- “Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” – Kate L. Bosher

- “Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” – Francis C. Farley

- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis

- “For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.” – W.J. Ronald Tucker

- “Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.” – Carrie Latet

- “Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” – Richard Lamm

- “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

- “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Unknown

- “Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…” – Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976

- “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” – Katharine Whitehorn

- “In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!’” – Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”

- “Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

- “I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: «Why, this is Christmas Day!» ” – David Grayson

- “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.” – Eva Logue

- “Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.” – George Burns

- “If you cannot read this, please ask the flight attendant for assistance.” – United Airlines Flight Safety Brochure

- “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’.” – Homer Simpson

- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill

- “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

- “I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx

- “Boy George is all England needs – another queen who can’t dress.” – Joan Rivers

- “Is he just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?” – Freddie Mercury on Billy Idol

- “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” – Rita Mae Brown

- “If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.” – George Globol

- “Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
- “I dont want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
- “I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”
- “I’m chasing perfection.”
- “My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”
- “There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”
- “These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”

- “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames

- “Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” – Brian Reed

- “There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.” – Massimo Vignelli

- “People ignore design that ignores people.” – Frank Chimero

- “I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.” – Thomas Vasquez

- “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano

- “Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.” – Aaron Russell

- “The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.” – Marty Neumeier

- “Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.” – Scott Stevenson

- “Design is where science and art break even.” – Robin Mathew

- “Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.” – Mieke Gerritzen

- “A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.” – Bruno Munari

- “A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
- “Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”
- “Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
- “Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
- “Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
- “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
- “Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
- “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

- “Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

- “Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”

- “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”

- “Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”

- “Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”

- “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

- “Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

- “Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

- “The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, «Thus far and no farther.»”

- “This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”

- “Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”

- “What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

- “A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
- “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.”
- “I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”
- “I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”
- “I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”
- “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.”

- “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”

- “I won’t eat anything green.”

- “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

- “I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.”

- “I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.”

- “I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.”

- “If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”

- “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”

- “If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.”

- “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”

- “Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”

- “Rather be dead than cool.”

- “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

- “The worst crime is faking it.”

- “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
- “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
- “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
- “A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
- “A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

- “A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

- “A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

- “Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

- “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

- “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

- “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

- “All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

- “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

- “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

- “All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”

- “Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”

- “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

- “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

- “And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

- “Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.”

- “I don’t think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.”
- “I’d like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I’ll do that before I’m thirty.”
- “I’m 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I’m playing right where I’m supposed to be. I’m comfortable with that, but in the same breath I’d do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I’d do it.”
- “I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.”
- “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”

- “I’ve made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I’ve mostly been successful.”

- “If I don’t die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”

- “In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.”

- “In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn’t think I could pull that off. I’m a little short to be a basketball player!”

- “The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.”

- “The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don’t hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they’re in a good mood.”

- “You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don’t work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won’t work.”

- “A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrica! event.”
- “And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.”
- “Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.”
- “But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.”
- “I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.”
- “I dress to kill, but tastefully.”
- “I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.”
- “I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star. It’s nothing new – I used to spend down to the last dime.”

- “I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.”

- “I like to be surrounded by splendid things.”

- “I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.”

- “I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.”

- “I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs.”

- “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”

- “I’m hopeless with money; I simply spend what I’ve got.”

- “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.”

- “I’m not into business at all.”

- “I’m very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years’ time.”

- “If we’re weird onstage, I don’t know what you’d call the Tubes.”

- “In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.”