Top 100 It Is Said Quotes
#1. It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
James Cook
#2. The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.
Erich Maria Remarque
#3. Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
J.M. Barrie
#4. It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#5. The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies
#7. The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
#8. It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.
Anthony Marais
#9. It is said that the difference between God and us is that God never thinks he is us. Genesis suggests some nuancing of that insight. God doesn't mind sharing with us the divine life and the divine image and thus the divine responsibility for the world, and eventually God will become one of us.
John E. Goldingay
#11. You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
Melina Mercouri
#12. It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state.
Pierre Clastres
#13. It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke Of Norfolk
#15. It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?
Lee Battersby
#16. Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?"
"No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child."
"B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!
Georgette Heyer
#17. It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.
Lawrence Fagg
#18. It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.
Emile Durkheim
#19. It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
#20. Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.
Thomas Aquinas
#21. It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#22. Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.
Heloise D'Argenteuil
#23. When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#24. It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession in the world but that it bears a close resemblance to the oldest," said
James Patterson
#25. The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.
Joseph Haydn
#26. Women, it is said, are inferior, amoral, animal and satanic. In which case, being born is either insulting, or meaningless.
Patricia Storace
#27. In Zen Buddhism it is said that "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Which means that if by walking on the spiritual path you encounter the rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalised Buddhism , you must free yourself from them too.
Yuval Noah Harari
#28. It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
James A. Baldwin
#29. It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
Paulo Coelho
#30. By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.
Henry Mitchell
#31. It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance.
Claire North
#32. You know, Sanger, Barnum may have said that it matters not what is said about you so long as it is said, but I am eloquent enough to knock that theory into a cocked hat should I be required to do so.
Val Andrews
#33. That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I trust, magisters, that there are no fools among you.
Sarah Prineas
#34. It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
Carl Sagan
#35. It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us ...
Barnabas
#36. Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the industrialist and prodigious art collector. It is said that he liked to wander through his gallery at night in quiet contemplation.
Anonymous
#37. Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will
#38. It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
John Bunyan
#39. It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. For it is said in old lore, 'The hands of the king are the hands of a healer.' And so the rightful king could ever be known.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.
Trudi Canavan
#42. It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.
Patricia Sequeira Belvel
#43. it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.
Charles Murray
#44. Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said ... Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?
David Gemmell
#45. It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#46. There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.
Robert A. Johnson
#47. It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
Peter Kreeft
#48. When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln
#49. It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry
#50. The name of God is so awe-full, so unpronounceable, that it has never been used by any of his creatures. Indeed, it is said that if, inadvertently, the great and terrible name of God should be spoken, the universe would explode.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.
Kahlil Gibran
#52. Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.
Agatha Christie
#53. It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
#54. It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.
Lawrence Lessig
#55. Global warming is held accountable: people must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.
Margaret Atwood
#56. The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.
Kenneth Coutts-Smith
#57. If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
Laozi
#58. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#59. It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Euripides
#60. It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#61. it is said to currently account for at least half and sometimes over 70 percent of all stock trades, which means that most trades are generated by computer programs rather than a human decision.
John F. Groom
#62. Two Seasons, it is said, exist-
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost-
May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer?
Emily Dickinson
#63. Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#64. Tiny waterfalls trickle down over the rocks where they freeze and the ice glitters in the sunlight reflected off rock and snow. It is said that in the old times, when the early loggers came, the first tree cut down could not fall because the forest was so dense there was no place for it to land.
Kathleen Valentine
#65. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
Terry Pratchett
#66. It is said that in every Persian carpet there is an error created by the weaver to avoid making a mockery of the belief that only Allah is perfect. Writing a novel is the quest for a perfection every writer knows can never be achieved, but is obliged to Set out to write a masterpiece.
Chloe Thurlow
#67. It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.
Ingrid Betancourt
#69. It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#70. It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
Paracelsus
#71. each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.
Paulo Freire
#72. The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way.
Amanda Knox
#73. Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.
Thomas De Quincey
#74. It is said that science demystifies nature, but scientists on the frontier are awed by the elegance and harmony of nature.
Daniel C. Matt
#75. The unprecedented development of science and technology ... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.
Robert Platt
#76. It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire
#77. It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#78. It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
Jay Leno
#79. I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
#80. It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.
Oscar Wilde
#81. The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie
#82. It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
Terry Goodkind
#83. Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#84. First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#85. Abbi described to me what it was to travel, to see the fabric of life spread out before him. He said it was 'possibility.' It is said that there is time enough for every purpose, and so you must continue to believe that there is a time for you.
Alexandra Bracken
#86. It is said that in death, all things become clear.
Dan Brown
#87. It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer ...
Deborah Ann
#88. It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter
#89. [I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
Deb Caletti
#91. The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
Terry Eagleton
#92. Whoa, sexy weirdness," said Emma. "This may be more sexy weirdness than I can handle."
"It is not weird!"
"It is," said Emma. "You are headed for a faerie threesome. Or some kind of war."
"Emma!"
"Hot faerie threesome," said Emma cheerfully. "I can say I knew you when.
Cassandra Clare
#93. It is said that he was the first of Men to reach the Great Sea, and that none, save the Eldar, have ever felt more deeply the longing that it brings.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers,
"Christmas is just around the corner."
"It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?"
Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said,
"I mean tomorrow is Christmas Day."
"I know that," said Amelia Bedelia.
Peggy Parish
#95. It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#97. Because specific defenses do not ordinarily react to our own normal cells, it is said that the immune system is able to distinguish "self" from "nonself.
Sylvia S. Mader
#98. The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.
John Calvin
#99. It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.
George Webbe Dasent
#100. It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.
Wilhelm Reich
