Buckys Quotes & Sayings

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge. — Rob S. Rice

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird. — Katherine Paterson

Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed
Because a summer evening passed;
And little Ariadne cried
That summer fancy fell at last
To dust; and young Verona died
When beauty's hour was overcast.

Theirs was the bitterness we know
Because the clouds of hawthorn keep
So short a state, and kisses go
To tombs unfathomably deep,
While Rameses and Romeo
And little Ariadne sleep. — John Drinkwater

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell

You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law. — Derek Raymond

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane. — Ann Aguirre

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious. — Richard Mitchell

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge