(542 quotes found)
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We live at the edge of the miraculous.”
Henry Miller
“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
William Shakespeare
“I still find myself walking away from the water's edge before I have what I need. I turn around and walk back toward the water ...sometimes two or three times, as if I can't decide whether to stay or leave. I will sit down more often and yield to the giver ...and when I return to my desk, I will have what I want to give.”
Jan Denise
“The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. "Uh-oh," he thought. "This watering hole is reserved for skeletons."”
Jack Handy
“A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Washington Irving
“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
