quotes about goodbye

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692



The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~Henry S. Haskins



Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold



One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats and one always secretes too much jelly. ~Virginia Woolf



The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein



Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ~Douglas Adams



Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite. ~Terri Guillemets



Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Each kiss a heart-quake... ~Lord Byron, Don Juan



Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb



In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam



The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~Niels Bohr



Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. ~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu



Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1967



Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend



My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember. ~Author Unknown



I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. ~Author Unknown



It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb



Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire



Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ~Author Unknown