Quotes
Quotes about End
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Is rounded with a sleep.
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us; but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.
Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
Draw your salary before spending it.
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.
Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
