"What if thou be saint or sinner, Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,-- Empty paunch, or jolly dinner, When Death thee shall call. All like are rich or richer, King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher, When the grave hides all."

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Source : RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

Richard Watson Gilder

#Death Quotes #Kings Quotes #What If Quotes

“In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.”
“Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.”
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
“I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.”
“Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.”
“I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.”
“I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.”
“For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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