drake quotes from songs

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ~Samuel Johnson



When you're wearing a green tuxedo, you dance where they tell you. ~Colonel Potter, "Too Many Cooks," original airdate 17 September 1979, written by Dennis Koenig, directed by Charles S. Dubin



Epitaph: an inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there; a brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.



It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke



My favorite animal is steak. ~Fran Lebowitz



It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy



I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988



A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~Thomas Chandler Haliburton



America is a tune. It must be sung together. ~Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds



What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook



The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926



Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost



Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. ~John Morley



To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988 To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha



For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell. ~George E. Wilson



Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More



Idiom: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up, i.e. cannot be translated literally. Examples: "under the weather," "kick the bucket."



Remember: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser. ~Author Unknown



Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"