Displays Quotes

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Often, Both

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

Person, Off, Show

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon

Beauty, Long, Him

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
Edward de Bono

Important, Joke, Perception

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Natural, Expression, Stage

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura

Government, Respect, Loyalty

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
Julie Burchill

Love, Women, Men

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Umberto Eco

Different, Effect, Capacity

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.
Sloane Crosley

Else, Matter, Show

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
Jenny Eclair

Marriage, Vulgar, Incredibly

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.
Kim Campbell

Great, Patriotic, Canadians

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
Vladimir Kramnik

Respect, Body, Language

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
Bill Joy

Large, Systems, Screen

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
John Mahoney

Life, Person, Done

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
Peter R. Grant

Through, Courtship, Males

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
Columba Bush

Love, Children, Sometimes

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte

Design, Deep, Understand

The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.
Flo Rida

Love, Waiting, Enjoy

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.
Kristin Kreuk

Experience, Character, Help

I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.
Mark Viduka

Emotional, Why, Worry

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