Fragezeichen Bei Quotes & Sayings

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? — J.E. Seanachai

If you hurt her, I'll personally snip off your balls and hang them on the Christmas tree this year. — Becca Ritchie

The allowance vanished absolutely; and in its place there came into being an arrangement. By this, his lordship was to have whatever money he wished, but he must ask for it, and state why it was needed. If the request were reasonable, the cash would be forthcoming; if preposterous, it would not. The flaw in the scheme, from his lordship's point of view, was the difference of opinion that can exist in the minds of two men as to what the words reasonable and preposterous may be taken to mean. Twenty pounds, for instance, would, in the lexicon of Sir Thomas Blunt, be perfectly reasonable for the current expenses of a man engaged to Molly McEachern, but preposterous for one to whom she had declined to remain engaged. It is these subtle shades of meaning that make the English language so full of pitfalls for the foreigner. — P.G. Wodehouse

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands. — Ani DiFranco

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents. — Clemence Poesy

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort. — Barbara Mertz