Famous quotes containing the words james, cagney, retirement and/or death:
“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.”
—William James (1843–1916)
“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)
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)