Alice May quotes

“Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.”
-- Alice May

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“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.”

“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

“A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.”

“My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.”

Source : Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan

“Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.”

“Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.”

“My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.”

“Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.”

“Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.”