"Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'."

-- Edward Abbey

#Gravestone Quotes #Epitaph Quotes #Please Quotes

“It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.”
“I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.”
“...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.”
“Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
“The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.”

Source : Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”
“Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.”
“While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business,”
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”

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