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Mets Quotes - Page 11

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

"Men are my weakness! Dolly Parton is rumoured to have had countless lovers in her 45-year marriage, but she says no one compares to her husband". Interview with Lina Das, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 8, 2014.

I've never met a very memorable cobbler.

"Assorted Fictions". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2006.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.

Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.310, Penguin