Quotes
Quotes about End
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Psychological Reflections.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.
In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, statusâall these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood. Thou art no father nor friend of mine.
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.
Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair!
Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him?
