List of famous sayings

A saying is a clichéd phrase or nonsensical word, often used in a metaphorical way. If you use a Famous Saying, or a Saying you are giving a piece of counsel or knowledge, or a frequently heard manifestation on the way things happen to be. Sayings don’t have to say exactly what they mean, as they are often just similar situations with different words placed within.

A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations. A saying is something that is said, notable in one respect or another.

Another definition: a saying “is the simple, direct term for any pithy expression of wisdom or truth."

Quotes and Sayings

1.) Alcohol Quotes and Sayings

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat - Alex Levine.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy - Benjamin Franklin.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide - Bertrand Russell.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I’m thirsty and when I’m not - Brendan Behan.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction - Bob Marley.

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt - Dean Martin.

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting - Don Marquis.

Alcohol can ruin your life and the lives of others, so why even take one drink? - Duane Alan Hahn.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.

I’d prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy - Frank Nicholson.

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day - Frank Sinatra.

Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy - Frank Sinatra.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water - Galileo.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life - George Bernard Shaw.

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered - George Best.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life - George Best.

What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking - George Gordon.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend - Gerard Way.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune - Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Water is the only drink for a wise man - Henry David Thoreau.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading - Henny Youngman.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle - Henny Youngman.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little - Herman “Jackrabbit” Smith-Johannsen.

Beer is the cause and solution to all of life’s problems - Homer Simpson.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough - James Thurber.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living - Jean Kerr.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk - John Marcellus Huston.

Alcoholism isn’t a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play - Joyce Rebeta-Burditt.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third - Knute Rockne.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol - Mignon McLaughlin.

I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop - Noel Coward.

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism - Norman Brenner.

Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker - Ogden Nash.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on - Oscar Levant.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it - Raymond Chandler.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly - Rita Rudner.

Why don’t you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini? - Robert Benchley.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss - Robert Heinlein.

Wine is bottled poetry - Robert Louis Stevenson.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost - Samuel Johnson.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought - Samuel Johnson.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness - Sir Walter Scott.

When the wine is in, the wit is out - Thomas Becon.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea - Thomas Fuller.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her - W.C. Fields.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink - W.H. Davies.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk - Winston Churchill.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me - Winston Churchill.

2.) Graduation Quotes and Sayings

The important thing is not to stop questioning - Albert Einstein.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value - Albert Einstein.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! - Andy McIntyre.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference - Arie Pencovici.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet - Aristotle.

Education is the best provision for old age - Aristotle.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out - Art Linkletter.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest - Benjamin Franklin.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going - Beverly Sills.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten - B.F. Skinner.

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions - Bishop Mandell Creighton.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out - Carly Fiorina.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart - Confucius.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps - David Lloyd George.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate - Doug Larson.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind - Dr. Seuss.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - Edmund Hillary.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse - Edward Koch.

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God - Eleanor Powell.

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed - Erma Bombeck.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Hitch your wagon to a star - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars - Richard Halliburton.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you - Robert Goheen.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success - Robert Orben.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final - Roger Babson.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving - Russell Green.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows - Sydney J. Harris.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad - Theodore Roosevelt.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world - Tom Brokaw.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm - Vince Lombardi.

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable - Wendy Wasserstein.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep - W.H. Auden.

3).Friendship Quotes and Sayings

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort - Adabella Radici.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive - Anais Nin.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces - Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them - Anon.

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life - Anon.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend - Aristotle.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies - Aristotle.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad - Arnold H. Glasgow.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away - Barbara Kingsolver.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival - C.S. Lewis.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness - Dag Hammarskjold.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails - Donna Roberts.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be - Douglas Pagels.

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it - Edgar Watson Howe.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you - Elbert Hubbard.

The best time to make friends is before you need them - Ethel Barrymore.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself - Eustache Deschamps.

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself - Frances Ward Weller.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out - Grace Pulpit.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light - Helen Keller.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend - Henry David Thoreau.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings - Henry David Thoreau.

In my friend, I find a second self - Isabel Norton.

A single rose can be my garden, a single friend, my world - Leo Buscaglia.

Friendship is Love, without his wings - Lord Byron.

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter - Marlene Dietrich.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies - Menclus.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers - Pam Brown.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better - Plutarch.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar - Robert Brault.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends - Samuel Pepys.

Friendship is a sheltering tree - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world - Thomas A. Edison.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends - Virginia Woolf.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend - William Blake.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship - William Blake.

4.) Happiness Sayings and Quotes

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it - Al Batt.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life - Albert Camus.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory - Albert Schweitzer.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions - Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult - Ann Radcliffe.

Happiness depends upon ourselves - Aristotle.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence - Aristotle.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition - Arthur Rubinstein.

My Happiness is not the means to my end. It is the end - Ayn Rand.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself - Benjamin Franklin.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some - Booth Tarkington.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much - Channing Pollock.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get - Dave Gardner.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment - Doug Larson.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product - Eleanor Roosevelt.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around - E.L. Konigsburg.

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart - Emily Logan Decens.

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same - Francesca Reigler.

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed - Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth - George Bernard Shaw.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected - George Washington Bush.

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life - Grey Livingston.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness - Henry David Thoreau.

Happiness is a form of courage - Holbrook Jackson.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination - Immanuel Kant.

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self - Iris Murdoch.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it - Jacques Prevert.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet - James Openheim.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion - Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open - John Barrymore.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own - Johann Pestalozzi.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable - Joseph Roux.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness - Lao-tzu.

I’ve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations - Laura Moncur.

If you want to be happy, be - Leo Tolstoy.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony - Mahatma Gandhi.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature - Marcus Aurelius.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response - Mildred Barthel.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you - Nathaniel Hawthorne.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness - Nicole Kidman.

Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember - Oscar Levant.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are - Palmer Sondreal.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it’s too late. The time for happiness is today not tomorrow - Paul H Dunn.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length - Robert Frost.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination - Roy M. Goodman.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed - Storm Jameson.

Happiness is a direction, not a place - Sydney J. Harris.

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved - Victor Hugo.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony - V.S. Pritchett.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose - William Cowper.

5.) Sympathy Quotes and Sayings.

A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well - Adabella Radici.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness - Amos Bronson Alcott.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity - Benjamin Disraeli.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn - Benjamin Robert Haydon.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been” - John Greenleaf Whittier.

And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since and lost awhile - John Henry Newman.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle - John Ruskin.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil - John Taylor.

A brother’s sufferings claim a brother’s pity - Joseph Addison.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains - Kahlil Gibran.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight - Kahlil Gibran.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey - Kenji Miyazawa.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy - Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humor, curiosity, and self-importance - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon - Mrs. Campbell Praed.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof - Novalis.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all - Oliver Goldsmith.

He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all - Oliver Goldsmith.

The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy - Parke Godwin.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other’s rights and wrongs; thus are we men - Philip James Bailey.

There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained - Pierre Corneille.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing - Robert Ingersoll.

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight - Rossiter Worthington Raymond.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others - Samuel Smiles.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Pity and need. Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood - Sir Edwin Arnold.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular - Sir Richard Steele.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favor to one when he is lowest in affliction - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney).

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world - Sri Chinmoy.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness - Sri Chinmoy.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die - Thomas Campbell.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one - Thomas Carlyle.

He kept at true good humour’s mark, the social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died - Thomas Love Peacock.

To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own - Tryon Edwards.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction - Vergil.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds - William Cowper.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it - William Hazlitt.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility - William Hazlitt.

Ah! thank heaven, travelers find Samaritans as well as Levites on life’s hard way - William Makepeace Thackeray.

A marriage or a refusal or a proposal thrills through a whole household of women, and sets their hysterical sympathies at work - William Makepeace Thackeray.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity - William Penn.

A sympathy in choice - William Shakespeare.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say - William Shakespeare.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin - Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

6). Wisdom Quotes Sayings

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers - Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit - Baltasar Gracian.

Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant - Carrie Latet.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart - Charles Dickens.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil - Cicero.

Wisdom begins at the end - Daniel Webster.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it - Doug Larson.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk - Doug Larson.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue - Edith Wharton.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit - Elbert Hubbard.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom - Elbert Hubbard.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind - Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything - Georg C. Lichtenberg.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment - George Santayana.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things - Henry David Thoreau.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance - Henry David Thoreau.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew - Herb Caen.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life - Immanuel Kant.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations - Isaac D’Israeli.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest - John Buchan.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another - Juvenal.

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom - Lemuel K. Washburn.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err - Mahatma Gandhi.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people - Mark Twain.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification - Martin H. Fischer.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom - Michel de Montaigne.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences - Norman Cousins.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom - Samuel Johnson.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness - Sophocles.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth - Sophocles.

A short saying often contains much wisdom - Sophocles.

Patience is the companion of wisdom - St. Augustine.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom - Stephen Vincent Benet.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time - Theodore Roosevelt.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom - Theodore Rubin.

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself - Tom Wilson.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future - Vernon Cooper.

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know - William Saroyan.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar - William Wordsworth.

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