(1312 quotes found)
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”
Sir Walter Scott
“Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright”
William Shakespeare
“I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.”
Courtney Love
“The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other”
Dan Quayle
“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed”
Coleman Cox
“Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave”
Charles Dibdin
