Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.