Mayor Wilkins Quotes & Sayings

But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear. — Ruth Downie

A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from. — William Faulkner

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks. — Michael Bassey

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit. — Wavy Gravy

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. — Steven Pinker