Agues Quotes

#1. Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

Herbert Spencer

#2. Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
To catch all feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.

Charles Churchill

#3. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell

#4. One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

#5. On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Graham King

#6. I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.

Ellen McLaughlin

#7. Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way

W.S. Merwin

#8. The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Gustave Le Bon

#9. I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

Lewis Thomas

#10. One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. Nora & Patch:
N:Is everything a joke to you?
P:Not everything.
N:Like what?
P:You.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.

Tor Udall

#13. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

Arthur Fogel

#15. We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Buffalo Bill