Quotes with one-size-fits-all

Quotes 8121 till 8140 of 11531.

  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Gloria Steinem The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Cohen The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Pablo Casals The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Preston The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
    - +
     0
  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Scott The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Shuster The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Adele The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
    - +
     0
  • Baz Luhrmann The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
    - +
     0
  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
    - +
     0
  • Heinrich Heine The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
    - +
     0
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Quentin Crisp The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Henry Huxley The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
    - +
     0
All one-size-fits-all famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 407)