Llamo Te Quotes & Sayings

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956] — Dorothy Parker

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

Isaiah 52:7 — Bible Verses

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect. — David McCullough

We're all special cases. — Albert Camus

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers' expense. — H.L. Mencken

Don't let your idea of God be limited to the imagination of others. Don't let them define your God and don't let them tell you how to express your faith. — Steve Maraboli

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away. — Hippocrates

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the ... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. — Gloria Steinem

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages. — Samuel Johnson

The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good. — Christian D. Larson

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. — Henry Bessemer

Jay: Looks like you misspelled the Treaty of Versailles.
Sara: Yeah, well. My brother's natural ability for languages didn't rub off on me.
Jay: ... I'm not talking about Versailles. I have no idea if you spelled that right. I'm talking about the word 'treaty. — Tracy Bilen