T S Eliot Famous Quotes
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
"April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers."
"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind."
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist."
"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go.
Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."
"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."
"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity."
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T S Eliot Quotations
"f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng."
Anon
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
Caligula
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people."
Charles Lamb
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher
"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it."
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
Let's be honest Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Lyndon B Johnson