(425 quotes found)
“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.”
Andy Rooney
“Good evening, loyal subjects. I am the African queen. Some of you may know me as the virgin queen, but I can't imagine who.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.”
Pythagoras
“You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.”
Horace
“Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.”
William Penn
“When Tim makes that first call, there is no subject. There is no project. There is nothing. It's just that I'm going to be having a salad with Tim in a week -- and it's always been that way,”
Johnny Depp
“Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.”
G. M. Trevelyan
“Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.”
Charles de Saint-Evremond
“My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.”
Robert Millikan
