Today Quotes
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.Lord Byron, Don Juan
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
Learn to obey before you command.Solon
If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.J. Paul Getty
They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it.Alice Cooper, BBC6 Radio, The Bruce Dickinson show
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoover
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.Latin proverb