Mortiferous Quotes

#1. Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.

John Calvin

#2. I think I would have missed you even if we'd never met.

Lindy Zart

#3. The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

Mary Oliver

#6. We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before. We were not born to sit in kitchens by ourselves, with nobody to chat to. Mma Ramotswe

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

George W. Bush

#8. Money is not everything, but is probably just second to Oxygen

Manoj Arora

#9. It doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#10. All truth contains an echo of sadness.

Charlotte Riddell

#11. It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.

Melina Marchetta

#12. When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.

Emily Dickinson

#13. Dude, if you stare at me any longer you'll end up as a twisted character in my wife's next novel.

Mantissa Etherbright

#14. It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

William Shenstone

#15. A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Irving Penn

#16. Success is an inherent part of the universe, for without the laws of energy and consciousness working together successfully, the universe would fall apart.

Anonymous