Simplicius Pope Quotes

#1. MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#2. Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

B.C. Forbes

#3. There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

Johnny Evers

#4. I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Muhammad Ali

#5. My greatest fear is time wasted - a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.

M.J. Chrisman

#6. I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

Claire Tomalin

#7. If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

L. S. Lowry

#8. Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Leifer

#9. That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

Jackie Schaffer

#10. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.

Meher Baba

#12. A hunter who is going to shoot an antelope does not waste his bullets on the dog.

Israelmore Ayivor