Iilli Quotes & Sayings

All excuses for laziness are useless. — Sunday Adelaja

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. — Cy Coleman

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well. — Nella Larsen

What's that?"
"It's a book."
"What's that, then?"
"A non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare, you should have one. — Steve Roberts

If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would love the wonder with which they behold the world, and would hope some of it might open our eyes a little. We would love their games, and would want to play them once in a while, stirring in ourselves those memories of play that no one regrets, and that are almost the only things an old man can look back on with complete satisfaction. We would want children tagging along after us, or if not, then only because we would understand that they had better things to do. — Anthony Esolen

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. — George Bernard Shaw

At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love
you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante
all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine. — Jonathan Carroll

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television. — Mark Russell

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. — Theodore Roosevelt

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. — Mae West

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. — Tina Fey

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation. — Patrick O'Brian