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The Answer to the Great Question OfLife, the Universe and EverythingIsForty-two.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Let yourspeech be alway withgrace, seasoned withsalt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.
And I replied unto all these things which encompass the door of my flesh,'Ye have told me of my god, that ye are not he: tell me something of him'. And theycried all with a great voice,'He made us'.Myquestioning themwasmy mind's desire, and their Beauty was their answer.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. 154
Straightway I was 'ware So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair And a voice said in mastery while I strove 'Guess now who holds thee!''Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang 'Not Death, but Love.'
Vous savez ce qu'est le charme: une manie' re de s'entendre re pondre oui sans avoir pose aucune question claire. You know what charm is: a wayof getting theanswer yes without having asked any clear question.
Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
'Mary, what made you do it?' She looked him honestly inthe faceand gavetheanswer that became famous in Deptford: 'He was very civil, 'Masa. And he wanted it so badly.'
The poet is the unsatisfied child who dares to ask the difficult question which arises from the schoolmaster's answer to his simple question, and then the still more difficult question which arises from that.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of humanreasonfor then we would know the mind of God.
How culpable was he That last night when he broke Our tribe's complicity? 'Now you're supposed to be An educated man,' I hear him say.'Puzzle me The right answer to that one.'
Speak now, and I will answer; How shall I help you, say; Ere to the wind's twelve quarters I take my endless way. 415
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.
Winds of the World, give answer! Theyare whimpering to and fro And what should they know of England who only England know? The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag.
Life makes no absolute statement. It is all Call and Answer.
Nasce da questo una disputa: s'egli e' meglio essere amato che temuto, o e' converso. Rispondesi che si vorebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perche egli e' difficile accozzarli insieme, e' molto pi u' sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbia a mancare dell'uno de'due. Thisleadstoa debate: isit better to be loved thanfeared, or the reverse? The answer is that it is desirable to be both, but because it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer fora prince to be feared than loved, if he isto fail in one of the two.
Si on me presse de dire pourquoy je l'aymois, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer, qu'en respondant: 'Parce que c'estoit luy; par ce que c'estoit moy.' If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
It seems to me if they ain't got you one way they got you another. So what's the answer? That's what I keep asking myself.What's it all about? Know what I mean?
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him, down the Lachlan, years ago. He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just 'on spec', addressed as follows: 'Clancy, of the Overflow'. And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar) 'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Dinna be chappit back or cast down wi' the first rough answer.
[Gladstone] spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question.Unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question.
Just before she died she asked,'What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said,'In that case what is the question?' Then she died.
My uncleToby would never offer to answer this byany other kind of argument, than that of whistling half a dozen bars of Lillabullero.
Is that your final answer?
Ask me no more: what answer should I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye: Yet,O my friend, I will not have thee die! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live.
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
I can answer for but three things: a firm belief in the justice of ourcause, close attention in the prosecution of it, and the strictest integrity.
:Tu n'es que la re ponse la plus courte qu'on puisse faire aux questions des hommes. : En sais-tu de meilleur? : Oui. Le mot rien est aussi court que le mot Dieu. :You are only the shortest possible answer to all the questions of men. : Do you know a better one? :Yes, theword no isjust asshort astheword God.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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