Remparts Quotes & Sayings

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn. — Desiderius Erasmus

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood. — K. Martin Beckner

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse. — Florence Nightingale

Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten. — Nicholas Von Hoffman

He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied his self esteem, because he wasn't good at it. — John Shirley

I recognized exactly where she was - that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy. — Jen Nadol

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! — Kenneth Koch

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed. — Saint John Chrysostom

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button. — Jack Kevorkian

I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York. — Richard Madden

Some only break their Fast, and so away:
Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed:
The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed:
He's most in debt that lingers out the Day:
Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay. — Francis Quarles

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. — Dave Barry

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time. — Lindsay Davenport

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens. — H.L. Mencken

If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right. — Bohdi Sanders