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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it

There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.199, Rowman & Littlefield

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasnĀ“t gone out yet.

Whitney Balliett (1989). “Barney, Bradley, and Max: sixteen portraits in jazz”, New York : Oxford University Press

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.

Walter Savage Landor (1831). “Gebir, Count Julian: And Other Poems”, p.357

We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!

"Celebrities Tweet Responses to Winehouse's Death" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2011.