Pinafore Quotes

#1. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

#2. Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

Krister Stendahl

#3. Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Plato

#4. The Tiara Charm

You Should Always Feel Like A Queen, Even for A Day

Viola Shipman

#5. Linus entered the elevator while the grownups talked and looked at the buttons. Buttons covered all the walls, and even the door. He pressed one, and with the luck that comes to children in fancy hotels, it was the fire alarm.

Ella Minster

#6. Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

Richard Cecil

#7. Lis felt the corners of her mouth turn up a little. She'd never had friends like this. Friends who wanted to see her flourish not fade. Their eager faces were like mirrors in which she could see herself more clearly.

James Dawson

#8. Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words ...

J.K. Rowling

#9. I love the mystery behind things.

Janelle Monae

#10. The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

James Martineau

#11. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Carl Sagan

#12. In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

Steve Coogan

#13. As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

W.S. Gilbert

#14. I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Dominic Chianese

#15. Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

Pete Domenici

#16. If we can walk through fire, baby, we can do anything.

Kristen Ashley

#17. But there's always a chance she's hiding a flask and a Nixon-esque Enemies List in her pinafore apron, which is exactly why we're such good friends.

Jen Lancaster

#18. Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.

Bob Uecker

#19. If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

T.C. Boyle

#20. Tis now the twenty-third of march,
And this warm sun takes out the starch
Of winter's pinafore -
Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
A health to spring, and while it sips
It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! ... And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!

W.S. Gilbert