Quotes about Saying

"A witty saying proves nothing."
-Voltaire

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "
-Mark Twain

"I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it."
-Mark Twain

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."
-Sophocles

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
-Robert Frost

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."
-John F. Kennedy

"When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were."
-John F. Kennedy

"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
-John Lennon

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."
-T. S. Eliot

"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
-William Shakespeare

"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
-William Shakespeare

"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.""
-Robert Byrne

"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."
-Douglas Adams

"Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying."
-John Updike

"It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."
-Steve Jobs

"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
-G. K. Chesterton

"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it."
-Madonna

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
-Matthew Arnold

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."
-Jean Anouilh

"When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile."
-George F. Burns

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson