Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband About 30 pounds.

A pound of salt will not sweeten a single cup of tea.

An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation.

Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London: Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.

I've got a Mind boggling, Sense numbing, Heart pounding, Stomach flipping, Take my breath away, Head over heals, Knee shaking, Daydreaming, Butterfly fluttering…Crush on you

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away.' Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

It's better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.