Famous quotes containing the words james, cagney, retirement and/or death:
“Yet in spite of all they sang in praise of their Elizas reign, we have evidence that poets may be born and sing in our day, in the presidency of James K. Polk.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“You dirty, double-crossing rat.”
—James Cagney (18991986)
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another mans 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 (16131667)
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the masterso long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toilso long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)