Delahanty Newington Quotes & Sayings

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent.
Dexter — Jeff Lindsay

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire

I would never trust anyone who didn't get at least a little nervous on the cusp of doing something important to them in front of other people. — Gwenda Bond

If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his. — William Shakespeare

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial. — Henry David Thoreau

We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Out burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City. Now, my little pilgrims, suppose you begin again, not in play, but in earnest, and see how far on you can get before Father comes home. — Louisa May Alcott

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day. — Dean Ween