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“Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!”
Norma Shearer
“WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.Ambitious fool! so mad to be a show! How profitless the labor you bestow Upon a dwelling whose magnificence The tenant neither can admire nor know.Build deep, build high, build massive as you can, The wanton grass-roots will defeat the plan By shouldering asunder all the stones In what to you would be a moment's span.Time to the dead so all unreckoned flies That when your marble is all dust, arise, If wakened, stretch your limbs and yawn -- You'll think you scarcely can have closed your eyes.What though of all man's works your tomb alone Should stand till Time himself be overthrown? Would it advantage you to dwell therein Forever as a stain upon a stone? --Joel Huck”
Ambrose Bierce
“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”
Bible
“Fit and Finish”
Steve Jobs
“A finished gentleman from top to toe.”
Lord Byron
“I get excited about having finished a new book.”
Nick Hornby
“In soloing -- as in other activities -- it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
Amelia Earhart
“We worked our tails off this week. We were really disappointed in the Gibson Southern finish. So I told them at halftime tonight that we were going to need at least 17 more points to win it, and they believed it.”
Tom Osborne
“If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”
Richard M. DeVos
“The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.”
Francois Rabelais
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