Tom Lehrer quote: When you attend a funeral, It is sad

“And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.”

Knows Facts Together Achievement Universal Comforting Bereavement

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!”

Ifs Trying Hands Steps Shakes Tolerate Step Up

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.”

World Together Misery Potatoes

Author:Tom Lehrer

“It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.”

Men Wells Book Hands Might Beautiful Young Literature Pure Fingers Young Man Passages Spoil Jewelry Assassins Sparkle Caress

Author:Joseph Parker

“Never mingle love and business.”

Love

Book:Barchester Towers (Unabidged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Doctor Thorne, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

Source: Barchester Towers (Unabidged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Doctor Thorne, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

“There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.”

Wells May Lying Order Found Sin

Book:Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

“A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.”

Men Forget Money Fund

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.”

Ifs Should Believe Special Evidence Claims Folly Wiser Foreigners

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.”

Knows Men Believe Hands Spirit Dark Know How Mystery Tables Instruments Stranger Rap Redemption Boards Shakes Touched Saviour

Book:The New Zealander

Source: The New Zealander

“Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.”

Should Wells Made Book Country Reader Doctors Following Profession Medical Tales Chiefs Modest Neighbour Locality

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

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