Facepalm Emoji Quotes & Sayings

Distance lends enchantment to the view. — Mark Twain

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home. — Winston Churchill

Move first, worry about looking like an idiot later. — Lili St. Crow

You want to invent new ideas, not rules — Dan Heath

Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work. — Geraldine McCaughrean

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes. — Winston Churchill

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun. — N.D. Wilson

No one more cynical than an idealist. — Tanith Lee

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves. — Jonathan Haidt

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia

One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, and their contemporaries didn't walk about saying, "Isn't this fascinating living in the past! Aren't we picturesque in our funny clothes!" They lived in the present. The difference is it was their present, not ours. They were caught up in the living moment exactly as we are, and with no more certainty of how things would turn out than we have. — David McCullough

To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible. — Bertrand Meyer

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard. — Seth Grahame-Smith