Thomas Becon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • To justify God's ways to man.

  • One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

  • Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  • Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  • and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

  • Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

  • It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

  • [On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

  • I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

  • He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.