saying quotes

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhapsmight havetakenoccasionto repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

-Joseph Addison
  In The Spectator, no.221,13 Nov.

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy1:15.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment.We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

-Va  clav Havel
  Speech,1  Jan.

Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? 'The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.'

-Tennyson
  'Tithonus' (revised1864),1.46^9.

Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

-James Grover Thurber
  Letter to Malcolm Cowley,11 Mar.