Showing posts with label Lord Tennyson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord Tennyson. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotaria - Oneliners

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington


Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
- Colin Greene


God's finger touched him, and he slept.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A motion to adjourn is always in order.
- Robert Heinlein

Friday, February 27, 2009

Quotaria

"Thinking is one thing no one
has ever been able to tax."
- Charles Kettering

"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps
himself because he can't help himself."
- Henry Morgan

"You can't help getting older,
but you don't have to get old."
- George Burns

"Death will be a great relief.
No more interviews."
- Katharine Hepburn

"Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
- Lord Tennyson

Monday, November 10, 2008

Quotes

"The first time I see a jogger
smiling, I'll consider it."
- Joan Rivers

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness;
there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard

"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut
our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"We cannot command Nature
except by obeying her."
- Francis Bacon

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It is better to be hated for what you are,
than to be loved for what you are not!
- Andre Gide