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'Give me 26 soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.' - Karl Marx
'Pull, and pull stongly; for your able strength
Must pull down Heaven upon me.' - Webster, 'The Duchess of Malfi.'
'The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards, and bedews the Heavens.' - Webster, 'The Duchess of Malfi.'
'Some days you are the fly, some days you are the windscreen.' - Anon
'Wisdom is offtimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.' - William Wordsworth
'If some did die, and others did not die, death would indeed be a terrible affliction.' - La Bruyere
'The world made me a whore; now I'm making it a brothel.' - Friedrich Duerrenmatt, 'The Visit.'
'The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.' - Irving Berlin
'Against you the wind will blow; upon you the rain will fall, but wherever you go, I will love you through it all.'
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' - George Santayana
'Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me.' - Emily Dickinson, 'The Chariot.'
'To every thing there is a season, and a time to
every purpose under the Heaven: A time to be born,
and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to
pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill,
and a time to heal; a time to break down,
and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather
stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to
refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep
silence, and a time to speak; A time to love,
and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.' - Ecclesiates 3:1-2
'You don't ever have a thing until you give it away.' - Ernest Hemingway
'Quand on est dans la merde jusqu'au cou, il ne reste plus qu'a chanter.' - Samuel Beckett
>>Roughly translated: 'When you're in the shit up to your neck, there's nothing left to do but sing.<<'
'Life can be very simple if you just follow this easy rule: When articulating your superficial sentimentalities or amiable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of plentitudinous or platitudinous ponderosities, eschew double-entendres, purulent jocosity - observant or otherwise...stuff like that.'
'Personally, I curse the day DNA was discovered. Weren't we all happier in our ignorance?' - Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole: 'The cappuchino Years.'
'That's it then, is it? The sun's going down. Or the earth's coming up as the fashionable theory has it. Not that it makes any difference.' - Tom Stoppard,
'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.'
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