Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 — Ambrose Bierce
A short saying often contains much wisdom. — Sophocles
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens
actions speak louder than words — Becca Fitzpatrick
The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is I just tell myself one word: accept. — Naval Ravikant
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal? — Louis XIV
Don't get caught by that nefarious phrase that where there's a need, there's a right. — Javier Milei
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. — C.P. Snow
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. — Carrie P. Snow
Phrase Image Quotes
Catchphrase Quotes
The Jake Paulers are the strongest army out there. Dab. — Jake Paul
You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut. — Randy Orton
In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. — Wentworth Miller
I'm always trying to change things - change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my costumes, or implement different jackets or catchphrases. I try to keep myself fresh. — Chris Jericho
For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often? — Tony Buzan
Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire. — Charles Yu
To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning. — Margaret Thatcher
I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian. — Bill Burr
My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you. — Sheila Hancock
Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops. — Lisa Lampanelli
French Phrases Quotes
French economist Jacques Reuff coined the phrase “deficit without tears to describe the new economic reality that the United States inhabited, where it could purchase whatever it wanted from the world and finance it through debt monetized by inflating the currency that the entire world used. — Saifedean Ammous
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. — Camille Desmoulins
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. — Fred A. Allen
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas
There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons. — Emmanuelle Beart
I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation. — Dave Barry
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. — Fred Allen
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little. — Raymond Chandler
One Phrase Quotes
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock." — Trevor Noah
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. — Charles Austin Beard
To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price
I have found the one whom my soul loves. — Solomon
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done. — Ben Harper
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. — Sergey Brin
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures. — Percy Cerutty
pretty please, with a cherry on top of me! — Gena Showalter
Illegitimis non carborundum.
Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Joseph Stilwell
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. — Martin Buber
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia? — Sarah Mlynowski
Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
- — Suetonius
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time. — Publilius Syrus
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur — Publilius Syrus
Valentine Phrases Quotes
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. — Yip Harburg
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. — Stendhal
How many times do I love, again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain
Unravelled from the trembling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
So many times do I love again. — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. — Melanie Clark Pullen
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun. — Charles Hanson Towne
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say,
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day. — Thomas Hood
Phraseology Quotes
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. — William Banting
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument. — John Marshall
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men. — Henry Mackenzie
A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person. — Neal A. Maxwell
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. — George Eliot
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms. — Jonathan Swift
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism...and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years. — Margaret Thatcher
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. — George Woodcock
One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all the time, but they're not specifically referring to Jesus. It's sort of this accepted phraseology for love, or spirituality, or whatever it is you personally believe in. — Christina Ricci
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret]. — Rowan Atkinson
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl Rogers
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace." — Pope Francis
Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit. — The Notorious B.I.G.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love. — Ken Wilber
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. — Joseph Story
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth. — Francis Galton
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.' The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution. — Stephen Covey
I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here. — Ronnie Van Zant
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan
I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. — John Galt
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all. — Saul Bass
Colleges have to be about discovering what we don't yet know and that process will come to a screeching halt if we are leveling threats of bias over the way people phrase things. — Bret Weinstein
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.' — Ajahn Chah
Minimal Encouragers: Besides silence, we instructed using simple phrases, such as 'Yes', 'OK', 'Uh-huh', or 'I see'. — Chris Voss
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day. — James Joyce
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind. — Michael Faraday
Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'. — Terry Pratchett
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity. — Alan Hirsch
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl
When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself. — Lao Tzu
I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing! — Alfred Brendel
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. — Hannah Arendt
A last word on slow breathing. It goes by another name: prayer. When Buddhist monks chant their most popular mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, each spoken phrase lasts six seconds, with six seconds to inhale before the chant starts again. The traditional chant of Om, the 'sacred sound of the universe' used in Jainism and other traditions, takes six seconds to sing, with a pause of about six seconds to inhale. — James Nestor
Certain things acquired an evil complexion if phrased, but remained harmless in the mind. — R.K. Narayan
During my hardest days, I repeated the same phrase to myself: I cannot lose if I do not quit. — Alex Hormozi
When the words ‘like a girl’ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with Always to shed light on how this simple phrase can have a significant and long-lasting impact on girls and women. I am excited to be a part of the movement to redefine ‘like a girl’ into a positive affirmation. — Lauren Greenfield
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