Quotes About Saying

learned that there is no more heartless saying than that the people get the government they deserve

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Every moment she wasted saying No to what she KNEW, was a moment lost to comprehension. That her worldview couldn't contain such a mystery without shattering was its liability, and a problem for another day.

All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.

There is a saying in the occult community that goes: The Gods need us as much as we need the Gods!

New-England weather — it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done.

The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

As the country so the proverb.

A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.

I soon discovered the truth of an old saying: "When God wants to punish you, he grants your wishes.

NONSENSE! Everyone loves a Humbug," shouted the Humbug. "As I was saying to the king just the other day——

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

There's an old Quidneck saying about fools: The only thing worse than one of them is two of them.

In Vino Veritas. The classy thing to say when you've had too much to drink and have just said something that is decidedly not classy, in vino veritas has been employed as a mea culpa of sorts for thousands of years. In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder referred to the "common proverb that in wine, there is truth in vino veritas."

Wine wears no breeches.

Wine makes old wives wenches.

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.