Ingloriously Quotes

#1. That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Richard Matheson

#2. Better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee,

Herman Melville

#3. There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Voltaire

#4. I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up?

Eleanor Brown

#5. Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Homer

#6. To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#7. We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

Pope Paul VI

#8. As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Kerry Thornley

#9. All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Maimonides

#10. I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Alan Alda

#11. something happen to The Fixer?" "Yeah, but wait.

J.D. Robb

#12. But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

Herman Melville

#13. There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

Aubrey De Grey

#14. My hour at last has come;
Yet not ingloriously or passively
I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

Homer

#15. Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously on your nose.

Mercedes Lackey

#16. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.

Frank Herbert

#17. His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.

W. Somerset Maugham