Quotes 61 till 80 of 1097.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
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A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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