Top 100 Webster's Quotes
#1. In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. Cookie's words. I looked it up though. She was wrong. Webster's mentioned nothing about pajamas.
Darynda Jones
#2. Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
Homer
#3. That speech (Daniel Webster's) raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
Robert A. Caro
#4. it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.
Niall Ferguson
#5. The word 'tight' has twenty-two definitions, but my favorite is Webster's fifth - "a bond which cannot be broken.
Alessandra Torre
#6. [God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything ... God is everything.
Iyanla Vanzant
#7. Critchley and Webster's fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
Hari Kunzru
#8. I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
Andy Samberg
#9. I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
Jack White
#10. Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#11. In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.
Thomas Szasz
#12. The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
Iain McGilchrist
#13. Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
#15. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
#16. Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.
Sheila turns her head, "Go slowly and be careful," she says.
Anita Shreve
#17. I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
Dan Webster
#18. We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
Dan Webster
#19. I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy's tale.
Barry Webster
#20. Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#21. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830
Daniel Webster
#22. If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.
Tom Webster
#23. This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. "I'm a gayrod," he shouts marching through crowded plazas. "I'm in love with a man, and I want men. That's what I want. I want man, man, man!
Barry Webster
#24. Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
Noah Webster
#25. It's a penis not an introduction to the president.
K. Webster
#26. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.
Jean Webster
#27. I know what's right and wrong, yet here I am, choosing wrong because it feels right.
K. Webster
#28. The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.
Barry Webster
#29. You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.
Jean Webster
#30. I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.
Ralph Webster
#31. I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.
Jean Webster
#32. You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.
Dan Webster
#33. It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
Dan Webster
#34. I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.
Nigel Hamilton
#35. The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.
Noah Webster
#36. With one last glance over my shoulder, I feel whole knowing that they are happy. That's my last thought as I find peace. At last.
K. Webster
#37. Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster
#38. Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.
Jean Webster
#39. The breach between the mind and body can't be healed by more knowledge."
"Then we'll go shopping. It's the only way to solve a crisis.
Barry Webster
#40. I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
Victor Webster
#41. Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
Dan Webster
#42. It's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!
Jean Webster
#43. Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,
Which dwells but in the tongue!
John Webster
#44. He's every bit of a warring devil and angel, all wrapped up into one human.
K. Webster
#45. Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.
Barry Webster
#46. Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful ... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#47. The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!
Jean Webster
#48. There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.
Barry Webster
#49. All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family's turn.
Ralph Webster
#50. It's nice to look forward to, isn't it - a life of work and play and little daily adventures side by side with somebody you love?
Jean Webster
#51. When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
John Webster
#52. Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
Victor Webster
#53. Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
John Webster
#54. Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
Dan Webster
#55. It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
Jean Webster
#56. Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth, and when a loving author realizes this, what would be the judgment of a critical public?
Jean Webster
#57. Both of you are threads in a carefully woven masterpiece of a blanket that is life. Parts of you are weaved into parts of him. There's no changing that.
K. Webster
#58. She's so fucking tight, and I can't wait to feel her perfect body gripping mine. We were made to be together. Everything about this feels right. She doesn't know it yet, but I'm going to make her my wife. My partner. The goddamned mother of my children. Mine.
K. Webster
#59. Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.
John Webster
#60. The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.
Webster Tarpley
#61. Julia and Sallie and I all had new dresses. Do you want to hear about them? Julia's was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids. It was a DREAM and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie's
Jean Webster
#62. Oh, of course, if a man keeps his soul in a bandbox he can produce it immaculate in the end; but what's a soul for if it's not for use? He would much better live in the world with his fellow-men, and help them keep their souls clean, even at the risk of getting his own a little dusty.
Jean Webster
#63. Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
T. S. Eliot
#64. Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
Dan Webster
#66. Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
#67. Again Sam's genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.
Barry Webster
#68. The rules state the pawn is the weakest piece. But if the pawn makes it to the other side, it gets promoted. The pawn can become queen. And then it's not weak at all.
K. Webster
#69. So this isn't in any sense acquittal through moral performance, or a reward for good conduct. It's not something earned by years of carefully crafted holiness. It's a wholly "free gift," as Paul says five times in the span of three verses.
John Webster
#70. I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.
Jean Webster
#71. Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out and try them on every little while. It's all I can do not to wear them to classes.
Jean Webster
#72. But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable. I scorn to coax men for what I wish. Therefore, I must be disagreeable.
Jean Webster
#73. It's a relief not having to thank Somebody for every mouthful you eat. (I dare say I'm blasphemous; but you'd be, too, if you'd offered as much obligatory thanks as I have.)
Jean Webster
#74. Our tongues aren't interested in what's right or wrong or fucking irresponsible. Our tongues just want to fuck each other.
K. Webster
#75. Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon Webster
#76. He chuckles. It's dark and humorless. "You'll learn, Bunny. I'm a liar. A bad fucking man. The monster you feared as a child. You're my new toy now - to do with whatever the fuck I please.
K. Webster
#77. She's my fantasy come to life. A dream come true.
K. Webster
#78. A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
#79. Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. Life keeps on moving until, one day, it stops.
Ralph Webster
#80. I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
Dan Webster
#81. Visit me before I die. We can enjoy one another's company. A funeral is a rather one-sided affair.
Ralph Webster
#82. It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However,
Jean Webster
#83. The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Daniel Webster
#85. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
#86. I want wings. That's all I've ever wanted.
K. Webster
#87. We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
Dan Webster
#88. Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.
Jean Webster
#89. Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Taylor Hackford
#90. If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
Ben Webster
#91. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.
Ralph Webster
#92. The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.
Jean Webster
#93. There's only room for one freak in her world.
K. Webster
#94. There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil
Robert Galbraith
#95. It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Zig Ziglar
#96. What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.
John Webster
#97. All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#98. It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
Jean Webster
#99. That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster
#100. In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land
and with no taxes to pay!
Jean Webster
