Thousands of phrases, quotations and aphorisms listed by authors and topics

Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Humor

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.

Nobility

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.

Ability

Biology always beats will power.

Power

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Love

The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

Beauty

I'd like to have a family.

Family

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Self-esteem

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.

Philosophy

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Map

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East --- don't know we laugh.

Humor

Culture follows power.

Power

Let the storm rage ever stronger!

Miscellaneous

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Life

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Work

I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.

Cooking

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

Beauty

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Dishonesty

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Treason

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

Best