Famous quotes containing the words james, cagney, retirement and/or death:
“Yet in spite of all they sang in praise of their “Eliza’s reign,” we have evidence that poets may be born and sing in our day, in the presidency of James K. Polk.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)