-
Quotes
-
Authors
-
Shackerley Marmion
"What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."
--
Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.
Shackerley Marmion
#Wine Quotes
#Old Friends Quotes
#Age Quotes
-
“The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?”
-
“I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes”
-
“Eric,†she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower!†“That would be something to see,†said Eric”
-
“Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.”
-
“I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.”
-
“I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.”
-
“We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.”
-
“He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.”
