Famous expressions https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions Great archive of famous expressions, sayings, aphorisms and quotes for every day. Celebrity citations. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:15:29 +0300 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:15:29 +0300 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions root@sky-net-eye.com (noreply) root@sky-net-eye.com (noreply) Famous expressions https://www.sky-net-eye.com/images/logo_en.png https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions Benjamin Disraeli https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-3846 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-3846 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1804—1881)
British Prime Minister
Life is too short to be small.

]]> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Gore Vidal https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-v-/aphorism-3017 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-v-/aphorism-3017 Famous expressions (1925- )
U.S. writer
Never have children, only grandchildren.
]]> Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Jack Kerouac https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-4281 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-4281 Famous expressions (1922—1969)
U.S. writer
I'm a Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

]]> Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Wendell Johnson https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-j-/aphorism-2558 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-j-/aphorism-2558 Famous expressions (1906—1965)
U.S. speech pathologist and general semanticist
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

]]> Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Leo Rosten https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-r-/aphorism-4243 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-r-/aphorism-4243 Famous expressions (1908—1997)
U.S. writer
Don't blame God--he's only human.
]]> Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 William IV https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-i-/aphorism-4766 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-i-/aphorism-4766 Famous expressions I know of no person so perfectly disagreeable and even dangerous as an author.

]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Quentin Crisp https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-3982 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-3982 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Dave Barry https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3831 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3831 Famous expressions Bad Habits, 1982
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. By this definition, the amoeba, the mango, the frog, the squirrel, the bear, the begonia, and many lawyers are forms of Life.
Categories: life

]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 F. Dostoevsky https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-5302 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-5302 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Jim Ferree https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-f-/aphorism-3081 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-f-/aphorism-3081 Famous expressions (1931--)
U.S. golfer
There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Bill Gates https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-g-/aphorism-5210 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-g-/aphorism-5210 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
There is virtually no application OS/2 cannot run. (1989)
]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Georg G. Lichtenberg https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-l-/aphorism-4407 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-l-/aphorism-4407 Famous expressions (1742—1799), German writer
What they call 'heart' is located far lower than the fourth waistcoat button.

]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:04 +0300 Joe Orton https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-o-/aphorism-2938 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-o-/aphorism-2938 Famous expressions (1933—1967)
British playwright
Should a father be present at the birth of his child? It's all any reasonable child can expect if dad is present at the conception.

]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Friedrich Nietzsche https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-n-/aphorism-2270 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-n-/aphorism-2270 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
How should explanation be at all possible when we make everything into an image, our image! ... Cause and effect: such a duality probably never occurs. in reality there lies before us a continuum out of which we isolate a couple of pieces ...

]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Zsa Zsa Gabor https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-g-/aphorism-4870 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-g-/aphorism-4870 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
As a woman, you have to choose between your fanny or your face. I chose my face.

]]> Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Mark Twain https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-3777 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-3777 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1835—1910), Sketches Old and New, 1875
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 G.K. Chesterton https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-2366 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-2366 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1874—1936)
English writer
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Reader's Digest, Apr. 1971. https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-3675 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-3675 Famous expressions What keeps people apart is their inability to get together.
]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Dr. Judith Kuriansky https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-2974 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-2974 Famous expressions Remember, when they have a tantrum, don't have one of your own.
]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 John Leonard https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-l-/aphorism-4049 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-l-/aphorism-4049 Famous expressions U.S. journalist, in Esquire, 1969
Politics is a form of astrology--and money is its sign.

]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Norman Douglas https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-2607 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-2607 Famous expressions (1868—1952)
British author
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Clemens Kirchner https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-4583 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-4583 Famous expressions Peace: a short pause between wars for enemy identification.
]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:04 +0300 JoAnn Thomas, Door Co. Wisconsin Advocate https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-3908 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-3908 Famous expressions An organized person is one who is too lazy to look for things.
]]> Mon, 18 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Jay Mohr https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-3806 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-3806 Famous expressions (1970--)
U.S. comedianactor
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over?? Movie Day.

]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:04 +0300 Chauncey Depew https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-3949 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-3949 Famous expressions (1834—1928)
U.S. politician
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Korean Proverb https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-p-/aphorism-2832 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-p-/aphorism-2832 Famous expressions Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
]]> Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Helen Keller https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-5164 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-k-/aphorism-5164 Famous expressions "I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my God."

]]> Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Irwin Corey https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-2368 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-2368 Famous expressions (1914--)
U.S. comedian
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

]]> Wed, 13 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 H.L. Mencken https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-3636 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-3636 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1880—1956)
U.S. journalist
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

]]> Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Hector Berlioz https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3566 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3566 Famous expressions (1803—1869), French composer
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Categories: time

]]> Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Simon Cameron https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-4009 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-4009 Famous expressions (1799—1889)
U.S. politician
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

]]> Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Kin Hubbard https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-h-/aphorism-4051 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-h-/aphorism-4051 Famous expressions (1868—1930)
U.S. humorist
Politics makes strange post-masters.

]]> Sat, 09 May 2026 09:00:04 +0300 Erich Heller https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-h-/aphorism-3809 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-h-/aphorism-3809 Famous expressions U.S. literary critic
Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that.

]]> Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 G.K. Chesterton https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-3683 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-3683 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1874—1936)
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Michel de Montaigne https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-3931 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-3931 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1533—1592), French essayist
Sits he on never so high a throne, a man still sits on his bottom.

]]> Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Mark Twain https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-2565 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-2565 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1835—1910)
Be good and you will be lonely.
]]> Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:04 +0300 Thomas Szasz https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-c-/aphorism-4278 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-c-/aphorism-4278 Famous expressions (1920--)
U.S. psychotherapist, in The Second Sin
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

]]> Mon, 04 May 2026 09:00:04 +0300 Carl Waxman https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-u-/aphorism-2660 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-u-/aphorism-2660 Famous expressions There is one exception to the rule "Never eat at a restaurant called Mom's." If you're in a small town, and the only other place is called Eats--then go to Mom's.

]]> Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Spike Milligan https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-2359 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-2359 Famous expressions (1918—2002)
English comedian
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

]]> Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 J. De La Bruyere https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-4825 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-4825 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

]]> Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Charles de Montesquieu https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-ru-562 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-m-/aphorism-ru-562 Famous expressions There is nothing more annoying than seeing how a well-said word dies in the ear of the fool to whom you said it.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Harvey Steiman https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-c-/aphorism-2531 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-c-/aphorism-2531 Famous expressions U.S. editor of Wine Spectator
Everything in moderation--including moderation.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Robert Bloch https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-4091 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-4091 Famous expressions (1917—1994)
U.S. horror writer
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

]]> Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-u-/aphorism-2807 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-u-/aphorism-2807 Famous expressions English mathematicianphilosopher
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Robert Benchley https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3262 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3262 Famous expressions (1989—1945)
U.S. humorist
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Blaise Pascal https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-p-/aphorism-3472 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-p-/aphorism-3472 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1623—1662), French mathmaticianscientist
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Sam Ewing https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-e-/aphorism-3090 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-e-/aphorism-3090 Famous expressions (1920—2001) — American writer, humorist
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

]]> Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:00:03 +0300 Mark Twain https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-2668 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-2668 Famous expressions #quoteoftheday
(1835—1910)
When you cannot get a compliment by any other way pay yourself one.

]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Missy Dizick https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-2829 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-2829 Famous expressions U.S. writer
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:02 +0300 Gelett Burgess https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3944 https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-3944 Famous expressions (1866—1951), poet
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

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