(592 quotes found)
“Same dances in the same old shoesYou get too careful with the steps you chooseYou don't care about winningBut You don't want to lose.”
The Eagles
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
Michael Caine
“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.”
Konrad Adenauer
“Of two evils, choose the prettier”
Carolyn Wells
“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen”
Charles Lamb
“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.”
William Osler
“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.”
Chamfort
“Not to be obliged, like so many others, to choose between the insipid and the atrocious.”
Emile M. Cioran