Georges Brassens Quotes

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

Georges Brassens

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• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

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  • Play
  • Getting Better

• As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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  • Time
  • Who I Am

• Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

  

  Robert Frost
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  • Democracy
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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  

  Lord Byron
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  • Breath
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• Research can trap you into the past.

  

  William Bernbach
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• What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
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• Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Young
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• MTV ruined music for us.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
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• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Light
  • Poetry
  • Phosphorescence

• Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Right
  • Gun
  • Shot

• I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

  

  Rachael Harris
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• I really like being married. I love my husband.

  

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  • Like
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• There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Happiness
  • Poverty
  • Christ

• We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Nation
  • Grave
  • Digging

• Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Think
  • Wife

• I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

  

  Georges Brassens
  • Grave
  • Communal
  • Rancour