Merque Quotes & Sayings

She was gone over the side of the vessel to be swung down in the bosun's — Bertrice Small

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone — Charlie Chaplin

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue. — Neil Gaiman

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily. — Harold Bloom

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. — Grace Napolitano

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. — Seneca.

For you guys out there who think looking doesn't hurt? You're wrong. Because we women don't think you're just enjoying the view. We think you're comparing, finding us lacking. And that stings. Like a paper cut on your eyeball. — Emma Chase

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight ... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment. — D.T. Suzuki

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together. — Ben Edwards

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one — Stephen King

Deborah's little house was lavishly decorated in I-have-no-life modern. — Jeff Lindsay

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised. — Michael Oakeshott

And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats. — Samuel Beckett