The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
~By Art Linkletter ~
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
~By Ray Davies ~
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.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
~By Jean Paul ~
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
~By Jodie Foster ~
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
~By Albert Claude ~
You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.
~By Henry Irving ~
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
~By Joan Didion ~
Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
~By Owen Hart ~
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
~By Count Basie ~
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
~By Leon Kass ~
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
~By James Longstreet ~
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
~By Jane Bryant Quinn ~
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
~By Jack Kingston ~
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
~By Mary Astell ~
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
~By John Lyly ~
Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.
~By Debi Mazar ~
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
~By Alice Miller ~
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
~By Charles Reade ~
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
~By John Updike ~
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
~By Kristi Noem ~
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
~By John Searle ~
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
~By Hart Crane ~
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
~By Samuel Prout ~
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
~By Tyra Banks ~
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
~By Edmund Waller ~
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
~By Prince William ~
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
~By Maria Edgeworth ~
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
~By David Knopfler ~
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
~By Cliff Burton ~
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
~By Frank Lampard ~
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
~By Horace ~
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
~By Karel Reisz ~
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
~By Colin Powell ~
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.
~By Kelly Preston ~
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.
~By John Motson ~
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
~By Jeff Greenfield ~
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
~By Ian Hacking ~
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
~By Terence Stamp ~
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him.
~By Minnie Driver ~
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
~By George Mason ~
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.
~By Julie Delpy ~
I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
~By Katie Price ~
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
~By Judd Nelson ~
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
~By Golda Meir ~
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
~By Herbert Read ~
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'
~By Lee Ryan ~
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
~By Hugh Grant ~
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
~By Billie Jean King ~
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
~By Alice Meynell ~
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
~By Julie Benz ~
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
~By Barry Gibb ~
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
~By Mika Waltari ~
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
~By Madame Swetchine ~
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
~By Walter Lord ~
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
~By Marie Corelli ~
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
~By David Hume ~
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
~By Shirley Manson ~
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
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