Category · 45 phrases
Quotations
- 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A place in the sun
- A riddle wrapped up in an enigma
- Blood, sweat and tears
- Cogito, ergo sum
- Et tu, Brute
- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
- From sea to shining sea
- Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration
- History is bunk
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
- I have nothing to declare but my genius
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
- If music be the food of love, play on
- Less is more
- Life's not all beer and skittles
- Like being savaged by a dead sheep
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- May you live in interesting times
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
- Nasty, brutish and short
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Never give a sucker an even break
- No man is an island
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes
- Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
- Say goodnight Gracie
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
- Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men, have mediocrity thrust upon them
- Spare the rod and spoil the child
- Standing on the shoulders of giants
- That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind
- The best laid schemes of mice and men
- The darling buds of May
- The female of the species is more deadly than the male
- The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
- Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things
- We are a grandmother
- We are not amused
- You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think
- You've never had it so good