“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.” SaidDoneFactsPleasurePrideUniquePoliceSaid And DoneFingerprints Book:Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays Source: Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
“In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.” MarriageBearsSavagesBullsYokeBenedick Author:William Shakespeare
“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.” ThinkingShouldSaidDiesMarriageMarriedFunny MarriageBachelorsBenedick Author:William Shakespeare
“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.” PeopleFirstsThreeFirst TimeIntelligentMeetingsImpressionMonkeysOmenGood Omens Author:Terry Pratchett
“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.” KnowsWorldLongHas BeensI CanEndsReasonDoneEnoughChoicesThis WorldHighest Author:Alison Croggon
“Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.” KnowsMenWorldMadeSoulJoyFineClothingsWoeWoven Author:William Blake
“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.” MaySaidLastsLove IsOne ThingMysteryAgonyTruest Author:Alison Croggon
“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.” IfsKnowsFirstsImpressionUnfortunateFirst ImpressionUnfortunate EventsSeries Of Unfortunate EventsWrong Impression Author:Daniel Handler
“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.” KnowsLifeInspirationalWellsMayMemoriesPayWiseWifeTalesHeed Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.” MenPurposeDying Author:Clarence Darrow