Miscellaneous Quotations Q-R
"Our days
Begun, we lend
To sleep, to antic plays
And toys, until the first stage end:
12 waning moons, twice 5 times told, we give
To unrecovered loss: we rather breathe than live."Francis Quarles, "Behold How
Short a Span" (1638).
Begun, we lend
To sleep, to antic plays
And toys, until the first stage end:
12 waning moons, twice 5 times told, we give
To unrecovered loss: we rather breathe than live."
"Here lies a great and mighty king,
Whose promise none relies on;
He never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one."John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "The King's Epitaph" (1709).
Whose promise none relies on;
He never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one."
"[...] we look up and we hope the
stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars
moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only
our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares
less about us than we do about it [...]."
Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh (London, 1994), p.62.