Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
Colin Powell

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dali

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Lewis Mumford

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Lee Iacocca

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Marcus Garvey