Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelO, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
Aldo LeopoldI was certainly on the darker side at one point. I didn't give a fuck or think that anything mattered - it was all about cruelty and manipulation.
Mark WahlbergThe car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
Tom DempseyIt is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
Brad HenryHow the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
John GayTOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
Ambrose BierceI'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
Jack Black'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country - I'm a Roman for that.
George FarquharThere have been a lot of ups and downs, especially last year there was a lot of downs [after winning the US Open 2005]
Kim ClijstersMen who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Samuel SmilesSir Alex Ferguson is the most successful manager Manchester United have ever had. It is ridiculous for people to suggest he leaves. Who do they want to replace him? Ron Atkinson, Tommy Docherty?
Gary NevilleI've been involved with the club since I was a kid but I haven't got them playing Bolton-type football - we haven't got anyone with a long throw or who can hoof the ball 50 yards into the box!
Kevin NolanThough the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
Grover ClevelandThe fruit derived from labour is the sweetest of pleasures
Luc De VauvanarguesWe are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry L MenckenIt is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
Michael ArlenRiches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles LambMy grandma was like, 'Oh Christina, you look like a whore!' I explained that's the idea.
On her 'Moulin Rouge' video look
Christina AguileraTony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
Michael HowardMy initial reaction is that I do not believe it is true. But the integrity of the sport is bigger than anyone playing it and if someone undermines the integrity of a sport then I find that offensive. (on Rusedski's drug trial)
Andrew CastleThe civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is far more opportunity than there is ability
Thomas EdisonThe whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret... that's really distasteful to me
Don FarmerPeople are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland
BjorkThe market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail GorbachevScience has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIf ever I ate a good supper at night, I dreamed of the devil, and waked in a fright.
Christopher AnsteyViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWe are going to go up again this season, and then kick some ass in the Premiership [on his team West Bromwich Albion, no less]
Goran Ivanisevic Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
Alexander ClarkA man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer Children are what the mothers are
Walter LandorFew of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognised their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
John GibbonWe would love to have the same success as the Spice Girls. They really made it. They paved the way for girl groups and we'd love to think this is our time now.
Cheryl TweedyI expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William PennI do not like broccoli, and I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I'm the President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat anymore broccoli
George W BushThe other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak [on appearing on reality TV]
Natalie AppletonComputers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo PicassoThere's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself
Johann Sebastian BachThere'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
Alvin DarkWhat is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell PhillipsI may play the fool at times but I'm a little more than just a pretty blonde girl with an ass that won't quit. [on Friends character, Phoebe]
Lisa KudrowFree people, democracies and leaders will stand firm against this evil and we will show that they're going to lose and that good people is to win. [on the London terrorist bombings, 7th July 2005]
Vicente FoxWhat you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
Jean BaudrillardComedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela CarterYou can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast [on Wimbledon]
Goran Ivanisevic Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow WilsonThe English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.(With Malice Toward Some)
Margaret HalseyA cold coming we had of it, just the worst time of the year
T S Eliot
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