Plato Quotes

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

An unused life is an early death.

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.

What is not good for everyone is not good for anyone.

I will ever prefer the weal of the public and of the whole commonwealth, in making of good laws and constitutions, to any particular and private ends of mine

I had the impression of calling on an old friend and finding him dead.

Quite often good things have harmful consequences… men have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon ...

Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction.