John Burgon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

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