Baksheesh Quotes & Sayings

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate. — Dylan O'Brien

What will that mean to each of you? It will mean that those of you who might have lived to be seventy-one must die at seventy. Some of you who might have lived to be eighty-six must cough up your ghost at eighty-five. That's a great age. A year more or less doesn't sound like much. When the time comes, boys, you may regret. But, you will be able to say, this year I spent well, I gave for Pip, I made a loan of life for sweet Pipkin, the fairest apple that ever almost fell too early off the harvest tree. Some of you at forty-nine must cross life off at forty-eight. Some at fifty-five must lay them down to Forever's Sleep at fifty-four. Do you catch the whole thing intact now, boys? Do you add the figures? Is the arithmetic plain? A year! Who will bid three hundred and sixty-five entire days from out his own soul, to get old Pipkin back? Think, boys. Silence. Then, speak. — Ray Bradbury

Since you have a choice between life and death, why not choose life and live. — Carolyn Wells

That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider
you're right! — Darren Shan

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like. — Catherynne M Valente

Admonish your wives with kindness — Anonymous

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back. — Ginnifer Goodwin

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God. — Alexander Whyte

I do quite like the idea of mutual ownership. — Penny Reid

My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them. — Lynda Carter

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved. — Tom Hanks

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!"
Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.
Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops."
"Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said.
"Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta. — Jeffrey Eugenides