(666 quotes found)
“Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
William Shakespeare
“Originally we were going to title it "The Daily Show With Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Off," but it was too long.”
Jon Stewart
“Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.”
Colin Powell
“Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The longer the title, the less important the job.”
George McGovern
“Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.”
William Penn
“We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.”
Cary Grant
“A studious decliner of honours and titles.”
John Evelyn
“Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.”
Jack Dempsey
“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”
Eldridge Cleaver
