Simms Quotes & Sayings

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind. — Andrew Simms

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. — William Gilmore Simms

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. — William Gilmore Simms

Playing well and winning the Super Bowl helped my credibility. Otherwise, when Id give an opinion, people would say, What has he done? If I didnt win that Super Bowl, Id probably be coaching somewhere. TV would not be an option for me. So, (winning the Super Bowl) does help. — Phil Simms

Oh, Jeeves," I said, "did Peabody and Simms send those soft silk shirts?"
"Yes, sir. I sent them back."
"Sent them back!"
"Yes, sir."
I eyed him for a moment. But I mean to say. I mean, what's the use?
"Oh, all right," I said. "Then lay out one of the gents' stiff-bosomed."
"Very good, sir," said Jeeves. — P.G. Wodehouse

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes. — William Gilmore Simms

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth ... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. — William Gilmore Simms

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes. — William Gilmore Simms

You can always make something out of nothing. — Simms Taback

The proverb answers where the sermon fails. — William Gilmore Simms

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. — William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them. — William Gilmore Simms

My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. — Bobby Moynihan

You better ... buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game — Phil Simms

In hockey, nearly everyone plays with a partner. The offense forward line is made up of a left wing, a center, and a right wing. The defense skates in pairs. Only the goalie is alone and he's always weird. Always.

Kenny Simms, who graduated last year, was one of the greatest goalies at Briar and probably the reason we won three Frozen Fours in a row, but that guy had the strangest fucking habits. He talked to himself more than he talked to anyone else, sat in the back of the bus, preferred to eat alone. On the rare occasion that he came out with us, he'd argue the entire time. I once got into it with him over whether there was too much technology available to children. We argued about that topic for the entire three hours we were knocking back beers at the bar.

Sabrina reminds me of Simms. — Elle Kennedy

So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field — Phil Simms

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan. — Phil Simms

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues. — William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration. — William Gilmore Simms

People go, 'Hey, did you do anything special for the Super Bowl?' Well no, I like to think I do the same amount of work every week getting ready for a game. — Phil Simms

As a quarterback, can you throw it where you are looking? — Phil Simms

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. — William Gilmore Simms

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. — William Gilmore Simms

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. — William Gilmore Simms

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing. — William Gilmore Simms

Remember, for it to be a forward pass, it's got to go forward. — Phil Simms

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery. — William Gilmore Simms

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. — Louise Jameson

Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes. — Phil Simms

I don't care what you think of Michael Vick - whether you think he's being mistreated or misused, or just think he's not that good, whatever. He can play for my team any day — Phil Simms

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies. — William Gilmore Simms

The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians. — William Gilmore Simms

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim. — William Gilmore Simms

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.' — Phil Simms

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition. — William Gilmore Simms

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. — William Gilmore Simms

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. — William Gilmore Simms

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures. — William Gilmore Simms

I write, because not breathing is not an option. — Monice Mitchell Simms

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good. — Phil Simms

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame. — William Gilmore Simms

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. — William Gilmore Simms

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. — William Gilmore Simms

My," Miss Simms said, wide-eyed. "I do hope dukes aren't held to the same standard. Can't be healthy for a man, always stifling his ejaculations. — Tessa Dare

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking. — Phil Simms

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. — William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone. — William Gilmore Simms

I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs. — Phil Simms

Hardly anything wrong can go bad. — Phil Simms

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment. — William Gilmore Simms

More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not solely its dollar value but how that value could be manipulated into emotional currency. — Kim Fay

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources. — Andrew Simms

It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay — Andrew Simms

Ray Rice was beat up last year — Phil Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also. — William Gilmore Simms

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object. — William Gilmore Simms

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others. — William Gilmore Simms

This was now officially the most inane conversation in which Griff had ever been a participant - and that included a drunken debate with Del over ostrich racing.

"The color isn't too awful?" She twisted a fold of the skirt. "The draper called it 'dewy petal,' but your mother said the shade was more of a 'frosted berry.' What do you say?"

"I'm a man, Simms. Unless we're discussing nipples, I don't see the value in these distinctions. — Tessa Dare

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.' — Dave Foley

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation. — William Gilmore Simms

The Denver Broncos are all child molesters — Phil Simms

This?" the duchess asked.
"Yes. That."
"I will tell you exactly what this is." She lifted her chin, then turned to Pauline. "It's exceedingly poor handiwork. Very bad indeed, Miss Simms. I expected better of you." She cast the entire mess of yarn into the coal grate.
Pauline rolled her eyes at the Bible. "Hypocrite," she pronounced softly, with perfect diction. — Tessa Dare

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society. — William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. — William Gilmore Simms

The more angles I see, the more confused I get. — Phil Simms

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so? — William Gilmore Simms

The love of God is so unlike the things we are used to as sinful people that it requires awe, it requires thought, it requires a beholding, and it requires a converted heart and mind in order to even begin to understand it. — Luma Simms

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming — Andrew Simms

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. — William Gilmore Simms

There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week — Jim Nantz

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub! — William Gilmore Simms

Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system — Andrew Simms

My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him? — Michael Simms

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. — William Gilmore Simms

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball. — Phil Simms

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give. — William Gilmore Simms