Nash Quotes
Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance.
Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.
Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.
If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.
I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.
I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.
Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.
The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.
The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.
A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.
I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.
What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?
There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.
