I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet. — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do...… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. — John Green Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
