(201 quotes found)
“The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom”
Bertolt Brecht
“Just as we did for our fellow countrymen in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, ... I encourage everyone in this great nation to roll up their sleeves and contribute as best you can to help our brothers and sisters along the Gulf Coast. It is in times like these that we as Americans have the opportunity to show the world one of the things that makes our country great...our compassion.”
Buddy Jewell
“I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'”
Lord Chesterfield
“I weep when I am not able to change something I will to change. My heart aches to see others in pain, and my soul is brought to wrath against the cause of the problem. I am not God, and therefore there is a limit to what I can do to ease the pain of a fellow human being, so I pray to Him that His hand cover those that hurt, and remove the burdens that hide smiles in their hearts and banish them from their faces.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.”
Samuel Johnson
“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”
Marcus Porcius Cato
“One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.”
Cy Young
“I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw and overcame".”
William Shakespeare
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain”
Mark Twain
“No one likes a fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.”
W. C. Fields
