William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Write
  • Understand
  • Order

• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Range

• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Pleasure
  • More
  • Still

• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • American
  • House
  • Space

• James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • Day
  • Honor

• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Power
  • Will
  • Quiet

• Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Imagination
  • Stories

• At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Time
  • Money
  • Business

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• White America is in the minority.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • White
  • Minority

• To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Style

• Whenever I get a little chance to get to Orlando, I like to take a couple days' break with the family, just hang out, go clubbing around town.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Family
  • Couple

• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Loves
  • Household

• To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

  

  William Glasser
  • Victim
  • Passive
  • Neurotic

• And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Fool
  • Ears
  • Flattery