"I have known many persons who turned their gold into smoke, but you are the first to turn smoke into gold."
Queen Elizabeth I(09/07/1533 – 03/24/1603)
English royalty , to Sir Walter Raleigh
"I have known many persons who turned their gold into smoke, but you are the first to turn smoke into gold."
Queen Elizabeth I
"Sex... the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
William Morris
"Everything has two sides—the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn."
Olive Schreiner
"A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money."
Andrew Mellon
"The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin."
Harry Houdini
"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders."
Walter Bagehot
"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
Wilhelm Reich
"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
Jules Verne
"I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
Steve McQueen
"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
David Suzuki
"She's like somebody's mom who'd a few too many drinks at a cocktail party."
Nick Lowe
"My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12."
Louie Anderson
"He's the chief [Jack Nicholson], right? What else is there to say? It's not bad sleeping with Einstein."
Lara Flynn Boyle
"It's like walking around a history book. You have all these beautiful buildings that were built before 1980."
Alyson Hannigan