3,000 Famous Last Words!

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

She's Not Superman, but Hey, Who is?.......................................

U-turn if you want to, the lady's not for turning. Margaret Thatcher 1980 Sign in to see full entry.

But hey, no name-calling!..................................................

" I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone to just sit there and agree with me. That's not their job!" --Margaret Thatcher 1980 Sign in to see full entry.

About Fair Competition.....................................................

" Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so." -- Margaret Thatcher, 1975 Sign in to see full entry.

This is pure modesty.......................................................

"I'm not hard -- I'm frightfully soft, but I will not be hounded." Margaret Thatcher 1972 Sign in to see full entry.

Now I am Flying in Low Over the City, My Goal Finally in View!.............

" Then with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last." The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber Sign in to see full entry.

Where's Ol' Honest Abe when you need him?................................

" You can fool too many of the people, too much of the time!" The Owl that was God James Thurber Sign in to see full entry.

Knew if I looked long enough I could find a 'raison d'etre' for today!.....

"It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all" Fables to Our Time, James Thurber Sign in to see full entry.

Could he be speaking of Joe Kennedy? No, literary, Joseph Stalin...?......

"'Joe', I said, 'was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and DeQuincy seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry.'" Alarms and Diversions, James Thurber Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

I've been trying to tell you all this time, Chill Out!....................

Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify! --H. D. Thoreau Sign in to see full entry.

When I was young I knew it all, but now...................................

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. -- H.D. Thoreau Sign in to see full entry.

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