James Cagney/retirement and Death 1961%e2%80%931986

Famous quotes containing the words james, cagney, retirement and/or death:

    As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
    —Clive James (b. 1939)

    You dirty, double-crossing rat.
    —James Cagney (1899–1986)

    Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
    Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)

    If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
    Muriel Spark (b. 1918)