Quotes

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  • Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

  • I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. – Winston Churchill

  • I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. – Clarence Darrow

  • Why should we look for his errors when a brave man dies? Unless we can learn from his experience, there is no need to look for weakness. Rather, we should admire the courage and spirit in his life. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that…

  • Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lampposts – for support rather than illumination. – Andrew Lang

  • It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time. – Rachael Bermingham

  • This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. – Dorothy Parker

  • Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?” – Joseph H. Jackson

  • Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

  • There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. – Oscar Wilde

  • The world must be all fucked up, when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. – Mark Twain