#Definition Quotes

“Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.”

“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”

“For to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”

“Success is not something you get out of what you do.”

“True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.”

“A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.”

“I don't know what humor is.”

“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”

“Value is what you get.”

“Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.”

“What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.”

“Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”

“Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.”

“Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.”

“Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.”

“To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.”

“All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.”

“Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.”

“Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”

“The speed of time is one second per second.”

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“Charity is love; not all love is charity.”

“Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.”

“Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.”

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

“Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.”

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.”

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”

“One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.”

“Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.”

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”

“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.”

“A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.”

“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”

“Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.”

“Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.”

“It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."”

“Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.”

“The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.”

“The rose is a rose, And was always a rose.But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.”

“My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.”

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!”

“The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.”

“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”