Uncle Argyle Quotes & Sayings

William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties. — Robert Dallek

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer. — Alain De Botton

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained. — Joe Haldeman

My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments. — Spencer W. Kimball

lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound. — Chris Cleave

She gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man she knows all that offends his pride and humiliates his will. While inclining before him and submitting flesh to spirit, she remains on the carnal borders of the spirit; and she contests the sharpness of hard masculine architecture by softening the angles; she introduces free luxury and unforeseen grace. — Simone De Beauvoir

That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth. — Michael J. Sullivan

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men. — Jules De Goncourt

If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet. — Jay Leno

Ng Security Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit #A-367 lives in a pleasant black-and-white Metaverse where porterhouse steaks grow on trees, dangling at head level from low branches, and blood-drenched Frisbees fly through the crisp, cool air for no reason at all, until you catch them. — Neal Stephenson

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
Only to meet again more close. — John Keats

In war, is it who's right or who's left? — Kenneth Cole