Reference Phrases

Phrases

• A day without sunshine is like, you know, night (Steve Martin quotation)
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• Acquired taste
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire quotation - in Candide)
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Cogito ergo sum (Rene Descartes quotation)
• Crisis, what crisis? (Jim Callaghan quotation)
• Crowd source
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Everything you can imagine is real (Pablo Picasso quotation)
• Favoured status
• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains (Thomas Carlyle quotation)
• Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Go straight to the source
• He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• History is bunk (Henry Ford quotation)
• Honourable mention
• Houston, we have a problem (John Swigert Jr. quotation)
• I can resist everything except temptation (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I have nothing to declare but my genius (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by (Douglas Adams quotation)
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)

• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results (Albert Einstein quotation)
• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not (Andre Gide quotation)
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed)
• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon quotation)
• Make mention of
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (Mark Twain quotation)
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent (Eleanor Roosevelt quotation)
• Not to mention
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Open source
• Open source software
• Religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx quotation)
• Riddle wrapped up in an enigma (Winston Churchill quotation)
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
• Source material
• That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)
• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference (Elie Wiesel quotation)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable (Oscar Wilde quotation about foxhunting)
• This above all: to thine own self be true (William Shakespeare)
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Vote with your feet
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• Whatever turns you on
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right (Henry Ford quotation)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West quotation)
• You smell, I stink (Samuel Johnson quotation)
• You've never had it so good (Harold Macmillan quotation)