Said Quotes

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats?

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.