Patch Up Quotes:

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Numbers, Mind, Patch Up, Beneficence, Unimaginable

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Ruth, Medical, Patch Up, Medical Procedures

Patch up thine old body for heaven.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]

topic: Heaven, Body, Patch Up

Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

- Patch Adams

topic: Sleep, Departed, Debt, Deceased, Posies

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

- Kathryn Kuhlman

topic: Giving, Doe, New Life, Old Life, Patch Up

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.

- Bernard Crick

source: Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick

topic: Real, Order, Giving, Productions, Patch Up

A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.

- Harry S. Broudy

topic: Past, Artist, Effort, Unfinished Work, Patch Up

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

- Charles Churchill

topic: Purses, Firsts, Gypsy, Brat, Patch Up

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Gowns, Gaps, Structure, Nightcap, Patch Up

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Eye, Feet, Fire, Stilts, Procession