(4213 quotes found)
“Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate”
Colley Cibber
“I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me, The memory of your name”
Laurence Hope
“The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.”
Gene Simmons
“A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.”
Cornel West
“I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that.”
Jack Handy
“An open enemy is better than a false friend”
Greek proverb
“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”
John Gay
“Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.”
John Dewey
“Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda”
African Proverb
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.”
William Osler