Fancy Quotes - Page 5

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

...Had dreams of fancy cars and limos, And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.