Lasts Quotes - Page 92
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard (2012). “Tom Stoppard Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died; In the Native State; On 'Dover Beach'”, p.103, Faber & Faber
Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.
"The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.
Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.83, Scholastic UK
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.122
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43
Letter to Macvey Napier, November 5, 1841.
Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
'Lalla Rookh' (1817) 'The Veiled Prophet' pt. 3, l. 356