Timeframe Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence resembles insanity only on the stupid. — Harry Harrison

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim. — William Shakespeare

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. — Tony La Russa

Prince Bolkonsky was of medium height, a rather handsome young man with well-defined and dry features. Everything in his figure, from his weary, bored gaze to his quiet, measured gait, presented the sharpest contrast with his small, lively wife. Obviously, he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but was also so sick of them that it was very boring for him to look at them and listen to them. Of all the faces he found so boring, the face of his pretty wife seemed to be the one he was most sick of. With a grimace that spoiled his handsome face, he turned away from her. He kissed Anna Pavlovna's hand and, narrowing his eyes, looked around at the whole company. — Leo Tolstoy

Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about. — Jed S. Rakoff

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. — George Carlin

Why me, lord? Don't answer that! — Charles M. Schulz

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable. — Hayden Fry

In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance. — Heimito Von Doderer

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years. — Austen Chamberlain

Serious people never stopped waging their war on joy and pleasure, and they were both relentless and tireless. — Steven Erikson

People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. 'Miss Austen to you' is what I feel inclined to say. — Angela Thirkell