Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
- Baltasar Gracian, 1601 - 1656
The happy ending is our national belief.
- Mary McCarthy, 1912 - 1989
A good book has no ending.
- R. D. Cumming
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
- Jill Robinson
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice - there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
- Frank Zappa, 1940 - 1993
I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war. I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
- General Mark W. Clark, 1896 - 1984 |
