Copybook Quotes

#1. As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Rudyard Kipling

#2. U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

Ingrid Newkirk

#3. In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

Rudyard Kipling

#4. But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

Louis Auchincloss

#5. When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

Rudyard Kipling

#6. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Peter Cook

#7. Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Chaz Bufe

#8. I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

Paul Lansky

#9. The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.

David Fincher

#10. I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

Brian K. Vaughan

#11. Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Patrick Ewing

#12. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

#13. He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.

Mark Twain