Sad Unus Annus Quotes & Sayings

Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;
A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay. — William Shakespeare

You are a sick, sick man," I told him.
"Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest. — Patricia Briggs

If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing! — Glenn Hoddle

If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of the period in question evinced nothing of the dandified Billy-be-Dam, an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered, and in a form yet more amusing than the original, at the tiller of the boats on the tempestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the groggeries along the towpath. — Herman Melville

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. — Rumi

If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does. — Sam Rayburn

Food ethics are so complex because food is bound to both taste buds and taste, to individual biographies and social histories. — Jonathan Safran Foer

All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray. — Jay Crownover

I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love. — Shan Sa

Within a few hours the cottage furniture began to be wrapped up for preservation in the family absence - or, as Mr Meagles expressed it, the house began to put its hair in papers - and — Charles Dickens

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label. — Sasa Stanisic

One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.
[One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants'] — George Herbert

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages. — William Mathews

Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike. — Willard Van Orman Quine