A Separate Peace Mr. Patch-withers Quotes

#1. Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#2. Great men's value increases with age.

Habeeb Akande

#3. I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

Lee Pace

#4. Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Tacitus

#5. Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.

Craig Cecil

#6. I wish I had adventures like you do," Leaf said as she traced her finger over the writing on the invitation.
"They didn't feel like adventures," said Arthur.

Garth Nix

#7. Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven's glory. Because of Christ's resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, "Where, O death, is your victory?" [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].

Billy Graham

#8. Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

Linus Pauling

#9. Garcia had traded his Sears electric guitar for an acoustic model shortly after arriving in Palo Alto, and late that spring Barbara bought him a better guitar, and shortly after that, a lovely sounding Stella twelve-string.

Blair Jackson

#10. The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come
he's all yours. Just a tip!

Keith Richards

#11. Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

Mao Zedong

#12. The red carpet we roll out come sizzling medium rare.

Ruth Fertel