Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 25419.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
Laughing Matters Act one: Satire -
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
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