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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Silas Marner (1861)Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929), Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)Goodbye cruel world. Gloria Shayne, Title of song (1961)There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
 Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), Collected poems (1952)Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. e e cummings (1894 - 1962) |