Clever Compounding Quotes & Sayings

This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people. — Alan Furst

He had never wandered this far from the morphine, never sensed such a weakening hold over breath and muscle. And mind. — Patrick W. O'Bryon

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. — Edna Buchanan

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president. — Valentina Matviyenko

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. — Hugo Black

As surely as the sunset in my latest November
shall translate me to the ethereal world,
and remind me of the ruddy morning of youth;
as surely as the last strain of music which falls on my decaying ear
shall make age to be forgotten,
or, in short, the manifold influences of nature
survive during the term of our natural life,
so surely my Friend shall forever be my Friend,
and reflect a ray of God to me,
and time shall foster and adorn and consecrate our Friendship,
no less than the ruins of temples. — Henry David Thoreau