Epigrammatist Quotes

#1. Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

Samuel Johnson

#2. Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#3. I foresee death by culture shock.

Woody Allen

#4. He changed sunset into sunrise.

Clement Of Alexandria

#5. As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Karen Black

#6. I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

Neil Young

#7. You look like you got more of a bath than the car. I never
thought washing a car would be so hard, but after watching you for the last fifteen minutes, I'm convinced it should be an Olympic sport.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. If you can use the other person's logic to show why the right thing is better, then you can probably win over the world to your leadership.

Frank McKinley

#9. Nobody knows what will happen after five minutes later! Strangely, this ambiguity makes life very interesting!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Douglas Adams

#11. I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

William Lloyd Garrison

#12. His Kiss:
He has me at his every whim;
everything starts with him.
To all the boys I used to kiss
everything stops with his.

Lang Leav

#13. The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.

Kamil Ali

#14. Kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Mary Louisa Molesworth