Fancy Quotes - Page 2

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.