Charles Dickens Quotes
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” A Tale of Two Cities
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!” A Christmas Carol
“He was bolder in the daylight–most men are. ” The Pickwick Papers
Famous Sports Quotes
“Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.” - Yogi Berra
“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” - Rodney Daingerfield
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” - Knute Rockne
“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.” - Ernie Banks
Good Ole Funny Quotes
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” — Frank Sinatra
“How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.” — Steve Martin
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” — Bill Cosby
“My wife was afraid of the dark…then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.” — Rodney Dangerfield
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“What is life but a series of inspired follies?” - Pygmalion
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.” - Mrs. Warren’s Profession
“My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I’m a free citizen.” - Arms and the Man
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
The Great Oscar Wilde
” . . . there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” - The Importance of Being Earnest
“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” - An Ideal Husband
Humorous Literary Quotes
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” - Agnes Repplier
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” - Oscar Wilde
“I can resist everything except temptation.” - Oscar Wilde
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” - GK Chesterton
Groucho Marx Quotes
“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
“My mother loved children–she would have given anything if I had been one.”
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”
Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.