Evelyn Waugh Famous Quotes
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh Quotations
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard Feynman
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
Unknown
"As members of the Body of Christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of grace to use in His service. Paul develops this theme in Romans where he states 'For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office So we, being many, are one Body in Christ, and ever one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth, with diligence he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness."
Paul Sadler
"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."
Eleanor Hamilton
"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."
Samuel Johnson
"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
Mignon McLaughlin
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was."
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."
Carolyn Heilbrun