Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!"
Farewell quotes
Farewell
335 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."
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"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it."
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"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
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"You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles."
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"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."
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"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end."
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
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"I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied."
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"Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell."
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"The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
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"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world."
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"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."
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"Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be."
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"All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!"
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"Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'"
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"We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow."
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"Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life."
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"Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do."
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"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
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"It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it."
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