Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Matt: "Wow, that girl in the lime green thong isn't wearing a top.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

We weren't really happy about it,-Trent Green

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget.

My salad days,When I was green in judgment.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

We are very happy that this has happened and wish it had been done years ago,-Nancy Green

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Your fortune stateth: Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

There was a young lady from Hyde Who ate a green apple and died. While her lover lamented The apple fermented And made cider inside her inside.

Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.

Your fortune stateth: You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled.

There is a green, multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

The grass is always greener on the other side of your sunglasses.

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin.

Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting for a dial tone.

J: "Would you notice if a spaceship landed and giant green burritos got out?" S: "I would. I'd chase after them with guacamole!

Anyone who lies golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

I'll kill a communist for fun, but for a green card..I'm gonna carve him up real nice..

Well, paint me green, dress me in plaid, hang me on a street corner, and call me mother.... I didn't know that.

-- A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no congeries of small, green bryophytic plant.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

If the grass is greener on other side of fence, consider what may be fertilizing it.

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

[When asked if the Packers offered him a long-term contract next year would he] be happy to spend (the rest of) your career in Green Bay, ... I would love it. Yeah.