1730s History Quotes & Sayings

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films. — Holt McCallany

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. — Teddy Sheringham

The hills
like poets put on
purple thought against
the
magnificent clamor of
day
tortured
in gold — E. E. Cummings

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. — Colin Firth

Hey'? Seriously?" I spared a moment to be grateful that my voice worked when the rest of me seemed to be malfunctioning. "I pass out under your care, then wake up half paralyzed to hear that some kind of 'horde' is in our area, and that's your opener? 'Hey'?"
Finn shrugged while I glared up at him. "I almost went with 'Get up and help me pack before we're overrun by a horde of degenerates,' but I was afraid that might lead to more panic than the situation actually warrants."
"There's a limit to how much panic a situation like that warrants? — Rachel Vincent

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up — Elbert Hubbard

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it. — David Edwards

Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You can only gain the benefit of something when you invest and spend time — Sunday Adelaja

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful. — Plutarch

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. — John D. MacDonald