(6825 quotes found)
“Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years”
Willa Sibert Cather
“I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting”
William Shakespeare
“Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”
Zoroaster
“YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.”
Lewis Carroll
“Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out.”
Will Rogers
“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a genius.”
Sid Caesar
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
