Sir William Temple Quotes

#1. Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

Joseph Addison

#2. Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'

Gore Vidal

#4. Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Jean Rostand

#5. Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

Dolly Parton

#6. Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

Emma Goldman

#7. You're right. Your decietfulness far exceeds my modest attempts at dishonesty. I bow-down to your superior duplicity.

Aleatha Romig

#8. Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Andy Hargreaves

#9. There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

Oscar Wilde