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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010In other words
"O book, O chants! Must all then amount to but this?" -- Walt Whitman (In "As the Time Draws Nigh") "Is that all there is?" -- Peggy Lee (Song)  SignatureEgbert White | "He whom the gods love dies young, while WAmE | he is in health, has his senses and his | judgments sound." (Titus Maccius Plautus) Egbert White filted: >"O book, O chants! Must all then amount to but this?" > -- Walt Whitman (In "As the Time Draws Nigh") > >"Is that all there is?" > -- Peggy Lee (Song) "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." -- William Shakespeare (Macbeth kvetching) "Yeah, whatever." -- Liam Lynch (single from the album "Fake Songs") ....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > Egbert White filted: >> "O book, O chants! Must all then amount to but this?" >> -- Walt Whitman (In "As the Time Draws Nigh") [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > "Yeah, whatever." > -- Liam Lynch (single from the album "Fake Songs") To the moon! Fly me to the moon! SignatureSkitt (AmE) >> Egbert White filted: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > To the moon! Fly me to the moon! Your name isn't Alice. --Jeff SignatureLove consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another. --George Bernard Shaw |
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