FastSaying

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.


Macaulay Culkin

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Mac...
MACAULAY CULKIN I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has bee...
TINA BROWN I've worked since it was basically legal to work. I was a waitress on and off for eight years. I...
ROSANNA PANSINO Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody w...
JOE WURZELBACHER It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly a...
DANIEL CORMIER When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial a...
NATALIA TENA I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take li...
LORRIE MOORE Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my ...
DAVID ARQUETTE When you feel strapped and are living from paycheck to paycheck, saving money for anything - particu...
BETH KOBLINER Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all...
DAVID AYER I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politi...
BEN CARSON I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I'...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.
GEORGE M. CHURCH What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make ...
BECKY LUCIDI Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a...
BOB SEGER What type of wrong thing, did I do?
...

What wrong did I said... and why I am so unl...
DEYTH BANGER As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine I...
TRENT REZNOR Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daug...
DAVID ARQUETTE The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a ...
MARLA GIBBS If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're givi...
DAN PINK This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the...
JOSS WHEDON Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I...
BJORK I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did som...
BETH RIESGRAF When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turne...
KAREN FINERMAN No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you ...
MARY J. BLIGE I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10...
GARY CHERONE I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
JUDI DENCH The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theate...
ANSEL ELGORT The one thing about doing all those movies and all that television is I know what I'm doing. And...
DAVID CARRADINE I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
AARON CARTER I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do...
MELANIE LAURENT When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fit...
JENSON BUTTON I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ...
DR. DRE She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell wh...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods....
CHARLES FRAZIER Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear...
ROBERT CONRAD When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was mis...
SCOTT ADKINS Now that you’re old, cut yourself some slack, would you?

Let yourself off the hook.
LIONEL FISHER When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair ...
BRAD PITT I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really ...
ROBERT SMITH I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I...
SAM SMITH Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ...
ED OXENBOULD I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. ...
BAHMAN GHOBADI I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl...
VALERIE SIMPSON Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things...
LARRY FLYNT When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know...
CAROLE KING I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what ...
FIONA APPLE All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I lo...
DIANA GABALDON I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty...
AMITABH BACHCHAN I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you o...
DAVID MUIR I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want...
LARRY WALL I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that w...
DANICA PATRICK I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. ...
RYAN REYNOLDS I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson r...
GENE WILDER With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If y...
SEAN DUFFY I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm cons...
MICHAEL MOORE We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old...
ABBY WAMBACH I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I want to shake things up like Bloom County did, ... When I was a kid I loved Calvin and I loved Far...
STEPHAN PASTIS I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I ...
EVELYN ASHFORD I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and int...
RICKY SCHRODER In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 o...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than fo...
YAMI GAUTAM I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling...
PAUL O'NEILL I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take ...
PATSY KELLY I find it comical that people who live from paycheck to paycheck laugh at me when I mention an angel...
BOBBY W. MILLER I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually ...
HEATHER DONAHUE When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ...
BOBBY FLAY If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was s...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I onl...
GREG LAKE It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was...
LIBBY TRICKETT I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm...
DONNY OSMOND We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning bec...
BEN PLATT I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stu...
ALAN ARKIN Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be pe...
YOUNG THUG I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to d...
OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for t...
CANELO ALVAREZ I'm living what I always wanted to do.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never realized I was doing it,
MITCH ALBOM I don't know that I'm not normal, because usually, when I tell people the things I do, eithe...
GLENN DANZIG If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling,...
TRACEY EMIN I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want them to do, without ...
J.K. ROWLING I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember...
JUAN PABLO DI PACE I'm not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, an...
PETE BURNS Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run tho...
DENIS LEARY Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing ...
KENDALL JENNER I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not t...
TAKESHI KITANO As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The ...
JOSHUA BELL Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

More Macaulay Culkin

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be s...
MACAULAY CULKIN People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is,...
MACAULAY CULKIN Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'...
MACAULAY CULKIN I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something...
MACAULAY CULKIN I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a re...
MACAULAY CULKIN I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just...
MACAULAY CULKIN He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really trie...
MACAULAY CULKIN It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it...
MACAULAY CULKIN I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind...
MACAULAY CULKIN It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
MACAULAY CULKIN I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my...
MACAULAY CULKIN There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Mac...
MACAULAY CULKIN I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag...
MACAULAY CULKIN After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like T...
MACAULAY CULKIN My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He...
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm ...
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn'...
MACAULAY CULKIN I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direct...
MACAULAY CULKIN People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the po...
MACAULAY CULKIN Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting...
MACAULAY CULKIN I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
MACAULAY CULKIN I don't even get an allowance.
MACAULAY CULKIN I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other ...
MACAULAY CULKIN I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happene...
MACAULAY CULKIN He's a friend, but the kind of friend you talk to twice a year.
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a liv...
MACAULAY CULKIN I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.
MACAULAY CULKIN We [Michael Jackson and I] talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.
KIERAN CULKIN People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hi...
RORY CULKIN Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.
KIERAN CULKIN Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.
KIERAN CULKIN The coordination of this has just been horrible. And we're just concerned that a lot of people aren'...
DOUG CULKIN It's a hell of a time to be telling people that they're kicked out, a week after the [Thanksgiving] ...
DOUG CULKIN When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the cor...
RORY CULKIN I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
KIERAN CULKIN I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really li...
KIERAN CULKIN A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, h...
ROSE MACAULAY As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why i...
ROSE MACAULAY Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms...
ROSE MACAULAY Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice ...
ROSE MACAULAY The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
LORD MACAULAY Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against fur...
ROSE MACAULAY I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
DAVID MACAULAY At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
ROSE MACAULAY But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not who...
ROSE MACAULAY He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate g...
TONY MACAULAY Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J.C. MACAULAY Love's a disease. But curable.
ROSE MACAULAY The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there?
ROSE MACAULAY As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it...
ROSE MACAULAY He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
ROSE MACAULAY So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed wi...
ROSE MACAULAY It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, c...
LORD MACAULAY We have to deal with the hand that we?re dealt. We have to look at it as the glass being half-full. ...
TONY MACAULAY You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
ROSE MACAULAY The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY He was pretty good in the stuff we asked him to do.
COLIN MACAULAY Brock just seems very natural doing it.
COLIN MACAULAY He was great. We hope to have him on again.
COLIN MACAULAY Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
DAVID MACAULAY I've never thought about the ages of my readers.
DAVID MACAULAY Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own l...
DAVID MACAULAY I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get...
DAVID MACAULAY I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
DAVID MACAULAY Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the...
LORD MACAULAY We'd see people live more simply, and to them it's a way of life.
KATE MACAULAY Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be a...
MARGARET CULKIN BANNING Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.
MARGARET CULKIN BANNING Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre hum...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so va...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when i...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that ho...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We mu...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth re...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to hav...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many...
J. C. MACAULAY The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it The Territory is worth. Em...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were no...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MACAULAY Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J. C. MACAULAY The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adapta...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples o...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagi...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousn...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tend...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine mo...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 tha...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, i...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consol...
J. C. MACAULAY It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succe...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from Ne...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduc...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dial...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a g...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the im...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a litt...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She [the Roman Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy libert...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to li...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at si...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth read...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exagg...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbou...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most dem...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Everybody's business is nobody's business.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his ...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Boswell is the first of biographers
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
An...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY