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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.


Samuel Butler

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SAMUEL BUTLER When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once
SAMUEL BUTLER When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
SAMUEL BUTLER Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS Love this life youve been given... ever-exciting, twists & turns, plot flips, unsuspecting surprises...
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over...
LINCOLN STEFFENS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got ...
ERMA BOMBECK Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to ...
GINNI ROMETTY Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you di...
LORRIE MOORE To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
SAMUEL BUTLER live a life to your fullest that is when you will die you will live a legacy behind.
FELIX OMWENGA Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do...
MADELINE KAHN The only thing a person should take with them to their grave is their faith, the only thing they sho...
DIPU AHAD Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and t...
ALEX BERENSON And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent in...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS As a matter of safety, it was the right thing to do at the time. Those who waited a little while did...
FRED HESTER The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it -- as ...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...
ARUNDHATI ROY The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is tryin...
LEMONY SNICKET Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
STEPHEN KING No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environ...
JOHN PERKINS Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respec...
MAISIE WILLIAMS Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend...
VAL KILMER Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.
ESSIE DAVIS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW The last thing we want to do is indicate someone [is at fault], when there could be an anomaly.
MARK ROSENKER and American investors have lost a great advocate, the legacy that he has left behind will continue ...
HARVEY PITT It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy o...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is hist...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different time...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different time...
LORD ACTON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is tryin...
LEMONY SNICKET Support (once they are released) is so helpful its almost the only thing that counts. Sincerity has ...
DARRELL ANGLEN I am sorry I am the only cat left of what was once a noble Clan. I will try to preserve the way of t...
ERIN HUNTER Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your c...
VINCE GILL Octavia Butler has been a beacon for thousands of us. This award will continue her legacy making sur...
WALTER MOSLEY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD The Worst thing you can do to someone is it to pity on them...
KEERTHI RADHAKRISHNA JALIGAM The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
CARLOS CASTANEDA While this latest ethical cloud hangs over Congressman DeLay, the decent thing for them to do is ret...
DEB CALLAHAN When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before la...
RAOUL DUFY When freshmen and their parents arrive in the Butler quad, they have an expectation that they're goi...
JON HLAFTER once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all yo...
SARAH DESSEN It is hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is o...
LEMONY SNICKET At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone...
DAVID SOUL Someone once told me it doesn't hurt to be nice to people and you've certainly proven that is true.
BILL PARKS Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind o...
DAVID SYLVIAN Born a Angel left to die only to transform into the monster who Survives
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up an...
MATTHEW QUICK The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them hap...
GENE SIMMONS the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.
SANOBER KHAN Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect descripti...
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL It's great to know that I helped someone play at the next level and get a free college education. Th...
CASAUNDRA WILSON It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The ...
DAVID SHORE Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't k...
EMINEM I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life an...
CORY BOOKER Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE I told him you do it by what you write. We're in competition with ourselves. We've got a legacy and ...
BILLY PAYNE Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless en...
SAVANIA CHINA The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.
SADIE CHRISTMAN Amazing how all you have to do is touch someone's heart once & your fingerprints are left on them fo...
N. S. COLE For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you sho...
FRED DURST

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SAMUEL BUTLER Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
SAMUEL BUTLER A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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