Salutation Quotes

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

Come and say G'day!

I've heard, 'May the Force be with you' about as many times as, 'Hey, how you doing?'

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey, the bottom line is you have to understand me to understand hey.

Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking box?

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

But what can you say in a letter?

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

Shaking hands is meant as a sign of respect towards your opponent.

People now wave at me with all five fingers.

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

My greetings to you, my Germany.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

Hello, Gallagher Girl --Zack

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'