final quotations- boda final

Gilgamesh

"There is a plant that grows under the water, it has a prickle like a thorn, like a rope; it will wound your hands, but if you succeed in taking it, then your hands will hold that which restores his lost youth to a man."

"The Man who Fled Azreal"

"... for God had commanded me, saying, 'Hark, today do thou take his spirit in India." From wonder I said to myself, 'Even if he has a hundred wings, 'tis a far journey to be in India today.'"

Book of Ruth

"It hath fully been shown unto me all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore."

Gilgamesh

"The wild ass and the gazelle/ That were father and mother... Weep for you." - Gilgamesh

A Dialogue of a Man with His Soul

"It was my turn to have gone, but it was the younger man who departed and in my agony I am a body without a soul."

"The Peach Blossom Fountain"

"They enquired about the politics of the days...And when the fisherman told them the story, they grieved over the vicissitudes of human affairs."

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

"A Book of Verse underneath the Bough,/ A jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou/ Beside me singing in the Wilderness—/Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"

Gilgamesh

"'Tear down your house, I say, and build a boat. There are measurements of the barque as you shall build her: let her beam equal her length, let her deck be roofed like the vault that covers the abyss; then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures."

Gilgamesh

"... I loosed a dove...she returned. I loosed a swallow...she returned. loosed a raven... and she did not come back."

"The Elephant in the Dark"

"Similarly, when anyone heard a description ...he understood it only in respect of the part that he had touched. If there had been a candle in each one's hand, the difference would have gone out of their words."

"Hymn of the Thoughts of Men"

"The cartwright hopes for accidents,/ The physician for the cripple,/ And the priest for a rich patron./ For the sake of Spirit, O Mind,/ Let go of all these wanderings of thoughts!"

Analects

"Govern them by moral force, keep order among them by ritual and they will keep self-respect and come to you of their own accord."

Gilgamesh

"...was it for this that I toiled with my hands, is it for this I have wrung out my heart's blood? For myself I have gained nothing...I found a sign and now I have lost it."

Book of Ruth

"'...for whither thou goest I will go; and where though lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die...'"

"The Cook Ting"

"However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up all the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I'm doing, work very slowly, and move the knife with the greatest subtlety..."

"Pyramus and Thisbe"

"At Ninus's/ Tomb, they supposed. was best; there was a tree there,/ A mulberry tree, loaded with snow-white berries,/ Near a cool spring."

Odyssey

"So every day I wove on the great loom./ but every night but torchlight I unwove it;/ and so for three years I deceived the Akhaiains."

"On Friendship"

"...put ... ahead of all other of all other human concerns, for there is nothing so suited to man's nature, nothing that can mean so much to him, whether in good times or in bad."

Odes

"Be sensible: strain the wine: in a little life,/ that takes no long look ahead. As we talk, time spites us/ and runs. reap today: save no hopes for tomorrow."

Annuls

"...for there were many who threatened and forced back those who would extinguish them, while others openly flung in torches, saying that they had their orders..."

Aeneid

"Take flight,/ Escape these flames!... trust to you her household gods, commending/ Her holy things to you; take them. companions of destiny; seek walls for them, and a city to be established..."

Odes

"...don't imagine/ fortune tellers know. Better to take what is coming, whether Jove allows use more winters, or this that is now/ wearies the Etruscan sea as it beats on the cliffs."

Odyssey

"I have some cause to fret in this affair./ I am one man; how can I whip those dogs?/ They are always here in force... If by the will of Zeus and by your will/ I kill them all, where could I go for safety?"

"Pyramus and Thisbe"

"You know how fire suppressed burns all the fiercer."

Aeneid

"...there appeared a blaze of gentle light; a tongue of flame,/ Harmless and innocent, was playing over/ The softness of his hair, around his temples.... thunder on the left/ Resounded, and a shooting star from heaven/ Drew a long trial of light across the shadows."

Annuls

"Their death was turned into a diversion. They were clothed in the skins of wild animals and torn to pieces by dogs; they were fastened to crosses, or set up to be burned, so as to serve the purpose of lamps when daylight failed."

"On Friendship"

"...all men are meant to have some sort of companionship one with another, and that the depth and significance of this companionship varies according to the degree of relationship between them. Thus it is stronger between citizen and citizen than between citizen and foreigner, between those who are related by blood than between those who are not."

"Lay of the Werewolf"

"If I ever lose my raiment, or even be marked as I quit my venture.... Never again should I become a man, save in that hour my clothes were given back to me."

Three Fables

"God frowns on those whose greed is such/ That they, too often, ask too much./ So don't complain about your lot:/ Be glad to have what good you've got."

The Inferno

"As a famished man chews crust - so the one sinner/ sank his teeth into the other's nape/ at the base of the skull, gnawing his loathsome dinner..."

Song of Roland

"'I'll smite great strokes with Durendal my sword,/ I'll dye it red high on the hilt with gore./ This pass the Paynims reaches on a luckless morn;/ I swear to you death is their doom.'"

"Lay of Thrym"

"'She has not eaten for eight long nights... She has had no sleep for eight long nights,/ So wild her longing for the wedding day.'"

The Inferno

"Under each head two wings rose terrible,/ their span proportioned to so gross a bird:/ I never saw such sails upon the sea./ They were not feathers - their texture and their form/ were like a bat's wings - and he beat them so/ that three winds blew from him in one great storm."

"Thorstein the Staff-struck"

"It would be a great mistake in one stroke both to throw away good fortune and do wrong."

The Inferno

"In every mouth he worked a broken sinner/ between his rake-like teeth. Thus he kept three/ in eternal pain at his eternal dinner."

Song of Roland

"There is wise valor, and there is recklessness:/ Prudence is worth more than foolhardiness./ Through you o'erweening you have destroyed the French...Your prowess... is a curse on our heads."

"Lay of Thrym"

"'We must busk --- in a bridal veil,/ Hang about him the Brising Necklace,/. Bind to his waist a bunch of keys,/ Hide his legs in a long dress,/ Broad brooches to his breast pin,/ With a neat cap cover his locks.'"

Song of Roland

"For one small hare he'll blow from morn to night;/ Now to the Peers he's showing-off in style."

The Maltese Falcon

"Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but - well, by Gad! - if you lose a son it's possible to get another - and there's only one Maltese falcon."

The Maltese Falcon

"Oh, I'm so tired, so tired of it all, of myself, of lying and thinking up lies, and not knowing what is a lie and what is the truth."

The Maltese Falcon

"Have you any conception of the extreme, the immeasurable, wealth of the Order at that time? ... They were rolling in wealth, sir. You've no idea. None of us has any idea. For years they had prey on the Saracens, had taken nobody knows what spoils of gems, precious metals, silks, ivories—the cream of the East. That is history, sir. We all know that the Holy Wars to them, as to the Templars, were largely a matter of loot."

The Maltese Falcon

"When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it."

The Maltese Falcon

"The facts? What assurance have I that the facts will be believed?"

The Maltese Falcon

"My clients are entitled to a decent amount of secrecy. Maybe I can be made to talk to a Grand Jury or even a Coroner's Jury, but I haven't been called before either yet, and it's a cinch I'm not going to advertise my clients' business until I have to."

The Maltese Falcon

"Belong? Well, sir, you might say it belonged to the King of Spain, but I don't see how you can honestly grant anybody else clear title to it—except by right of possession."

The Maltese Falcon

"Sam Spade, you're the most contemptible man God ever made when you want to be. Because she did something without confiding in you you'd sit here and do nothing when you know she's in danger."

The Maltese Falcon

"I hope to Christ they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. You'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you...If they hang you I'll always remember you."

The Maltese Falcon

"Most things in San Francisco can be bought, or taken."

Things Fall Apart

"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."

Things Fall Apart

"But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error. And so people said he had no respect for the gods of the clan. His enemies said that his good fortune had gone to his head."

Things Fall Apart

"No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man."

Things Fall Apart

"When did you become a shivering old woman,' Okonkwo asked himself, 'you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.'"

Things Fall Apart

"After such treatment it would think twice before coming again, unless it was one of the stubborn ones who returned, carrying the stamp of their mutilation-a missing finger or perhaps a dark line where the medicine man's razor had cut them."

Things Fall Apart

"'Beware Okonkwo!' she warned. 'Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!"

Things Fall Apart

"It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age."

Things Fall Apart

"We have heard stories about white men who made the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true."

Things Fall Apart

"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."

Things Fall Apart

"Okonkwo stood looking at the dead man. He knew that Umuofia would not go to war. He knew because they had let the other messengers escape. They had broken into tumult instead of action. He discerned fright in that tumult. He heard voices asking: 'Why did he do it?"

Things Fall Apart

"Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father."

Things Fall Apart

"A man's life was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer to his ancestors."

Things Fall Apart

"But I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship...And what is the result? An abominable religion has settled among you. A man can now leave his father and his brothers. He can curse gods of his fathers and his ancestors, like a hunter's dog that suddenly goes mad and turns on his master. I fear for you; I fear for the clan."

Things Fall Apart

"...I forgot to tell you another thing which the Oracle said. It said that other white men were on their way. They were locusts, it said, and that first man was their harbinger sent to explore the terrain. And so they killed him."