(549 quotes found)
“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
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.”
Christian Morgenstern
“Of two evils we must always choose the least.”
Thomas a Kempis
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
Tom Stoppard
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
Michael Porter
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“In choosing a friend, go up a step.”
Jewish Proverb
“Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.”
William Osler