Quotes
Quotes about End
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
In the end, everything is a gag.
I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]
Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
