Cricquette Quotes & Sayings

The worst mark you can recieve is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which every man retires, and gives over all hopes. (referring to Chief Minister of State) — Jonathan Swift

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil. — David Lloyd-Jones

If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive. — Clive James

A magician came to entertain us, and I was mesmerized by his beautiful hands, his fluid, round gestures. I couldn't stop watching his hands. They were better than any of his tricks. He pulled a bouquet of paper flowers out of the air and gave them to me with a courtly bow, and I thought love was like that, pulled out of the air, something bright and unlikely. — Janet Fitch

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at. — Rush Limbaugh

I blog because I have something to say. — Eddie Huang

His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had. — Jeffrey Eugenides