Frontispiece Etymology Quotes & Sayings

Either to die the death or to abjure
For ever the society of men.
Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun,
For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,
To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. — William Shakespeare

I'm happy to start on one topic and end on another one entirely, as long as it's funny. — Dave Barry

And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words — Jojo Moyes

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it. — Michael Caine

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started. — Gudjon Bergmann

Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that. — Harvey Keitel

Now, my friends, we go for pizza. — Daniel Younger

Be immersed in what you are doing, otherwise, you'll be immersed in what you are not doing or have lost. — Russell Eric Dobda

Punctuality is the politeness of kings. — Louis XVIII

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. — Meghan O'Rourke

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere."
Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know."
Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature. — Charles Dickens

If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same. — C.D. Wright

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid

It's just that this outfit is much easier to deal with than that chastity contraption you had on the last time we were kissing. — Andrea Cremer

On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops. — Kat Graham