Strewed Quotes

#1. Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Phillips Brooks

#3. And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

Jane Austen

#4. Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

James Hervey

#6. MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.

David Letterman

#8. Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

Maya Angelou

#9. Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

Lawrence Hunter

#10. JARED: Please stop saying feces. It gives me the creeps.
JOURNEY: I wish I could, but I'm genetically unable to bow to your will.
JARED: I've noticed that...

Bijou Hunter

#11. I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

Joe Goddard

#12. Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

Charlie Kaufman

#13. close to midnight. I don't want to ask

Nora Roberts

#14. Though it hadn't been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive.

Terry Goodkind