Parthenope Poem Quotes & Sayings

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. — W.C. Fields

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. — Richard Lovelace

I am the Angel of Death to any kind of plant. — Sara Sheridan

Please not to call it by any name," said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly. "You will say it is Persian, or something else geographical. It is my life. I have found it out, and cannot part with it. I have always been finding out my religion since I was a little girl. I used to pray so much - now I hardly ever pray. I try not to have desires merely for myself, because they may not be good for others, and I have too much already. I only told you, that you might know quite well how my days go at Lowick." "God — George Eliot

It occurred to me that there are at least three indisputable facts about best friends: 1. They wait for you, and 2. They slow down enough to walk beside you, and 3. They always know when you need hot chocolate. — Natalie Lloyd

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors. — Richard Wagner

I'm sitting in front of the TV, watching Jerry Springer, and it makes me think of how many mad people there are in the world, and whether everyone is mad deep down, they just pretend they're not, and it's the people in asylums or on Jerry Springer who are the honest ones. I have a notebook and a chewed-up pen, and I'm trying to think of a topic for the Youth Issues speech. Mrs Thomas says she thinks I have a lot to say, but I don't. Nothing I can put words to anyway. I could talk about bullying, or alcoholism, but I don't think I could speak about that out loud, it's too real, and it'd be like I was standing up there naked. More than naked. It would be like my skin was all peeled off and I was just standing there with my heart all bloody and thumping in my rib cage for everyone to see. — Megan Jacobson

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years. — George Pataki

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained. — John Ruskin

I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner. — Joe Calzaghe

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity. — Jerome Lawrence