
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. —
Jacques Barzun

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger. —
Friedrich Schiller

And, you know, when all is said and done, it really is better to wind up feeling scared and stupid than not feel anything at all. —
Autumn Doughton

Alas! sir," said Gringoire, "I would that I could lend you some, but, my breeches are worn to holes, and 'tis not crowns which have done it. —
Victor Hugo

Over and over, all I had done was say, 'There, I've said it,' though it would leave me feeling only exposed, not unmasked. —
Gary Lutz

She said nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I loved someone it would take it all away. —
Ernest Hemingway,

When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all. —
Brian Jett

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

But he just said my line, although I'd've done it minus the buggering part and with a lot more fucks. —
Karen Marie Moning

And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when all is said and done. —
Bill Richardson

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say. —
Jeffrey Lewis

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. —
L.M. Montgomery

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life. —
Lord Mountbatten

The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done. —
Ruth Handler

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. —
E.A. Bucchianeri

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me. —
Douglas Coupland

My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt ... so it was time to get them done! —
Dolly Parton

He's done what he said he'd do." She could feel the gentle provocation in his words, and it was what she needed. "He's done what he says he said. —
James S.A. Corey

You goddamn, freaky bitch, Grace said, because, hells bells, it had been a righteous day, and all of a sudden, pow, her temper was done lost and gone. —
Thea Harrison

It's okay with us," Dannon said, and now there was something in his eye, a little spark of pleasure, a job well done. Lucas thought, This isn't good. —
John Sandford

It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another. —
Jodi Lynn Anderson

But when all was said and done, the love between us in the little bed, as well as in our hearts, was so real I could practically touch it. —
Mia Kerick

Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind. —
Rashi

When it's all said and done remember, You are only as old as you look. —
Mark W. Boyer

Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it? —
Mark Twain

When it's all been said and done...
There's hell of a lot more said, than done. —
Alan VanMeter

If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done. —
Warren Buffett

Please, America, you've said and done so many foolish things, I'm surprised you can even be embarrassed anymore. Maybe it was because —
Kiera Cass

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt. —
Mark Twain

But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done. —
Mario Puzo

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken. —
Alan Sillitoe

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it. —
Danny Kaye

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. —
C.S. Lewis

When all is said and done, everyone should be able to look back on their life and know that they made it exactly as they wanted it to be. —
A.J. Darkholme

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. —
Wayne Newton

I said I'll need to get my nose straightened one day so that I can breathe properly and that was translated by the press into me having it done. —
Mike Tindall

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.' —
Omari Hardwick

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention. —
Nancy Atherton

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. —
Charles De Lint

When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face. —
Anthony Liccione

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will. —
Dolly Parton

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man. —
Rickey Henderson