Henley Ford Quotes & Sayings

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet. — Hilda Doolittle

What is honour? A word. What is that word 'honour'? Air. A trim135 reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o'Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible137, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction138 will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon139: and so ends my catechism.140 — William Shakespeare

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce. — Lanford Wilson

The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths. — Ethel Mumford

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats. — Herbert V. Prochnow

What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? — Patricia Highsmith

I can forgive, I just can't forget. — DMX

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets. — Raphael