Year 12 Farewell Quotes & Sayings

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter. (p. 22) — Rabih Alameddine

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art. — Michael Mosley

The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes. — Carl F. H. Henry

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world. — Laozi

To a man across a thousand years I offer a handshake.
I say to him: Brother, make the story short, for the stretch of a thousand years is short. — Carl Sandburg

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life ... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. — Phillips Brooks

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less. — Yiannis Kouros

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Henri Frederic Amiel