Patch Up Quotes

• Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

  Patch Adams

  Sleep, Departed, Debt

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Dios no remienda la vieja vida
  o hace ciertas reparaciones en la vieja vida;
  Él da una nueva vida, a través del nuevo nacimiento.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Giving, Doe, New Life

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• Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

  Alice Sebold

  Ruth, Medical, Patches

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• I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

  Harry S. Truman

  Numbers, Mind, Patches

  Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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• Patch up thine old body for heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Body, Patches

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]

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• One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.

  Bernard Crick

  Real, Order, Giving

  Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick

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• A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.

  Harry S. Broudy

  Past, Artist, Unfinished Work

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• Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Purses, Firsts, Gypsy

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.134, London : W. Pickering

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• With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

  Heinrich Heine

  Gowns, Gaps, Structure

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• Las procesiones que carecen de zancos altos no tienen nada que llame la atención.
  ¿Y si mi bisabuelo tuviera un par de veinte pies de altura,
  y los míos no fueran más que de quince pies, sin tallos modernos más altos,
  Algún pícaro del mundo los robó para arreglar una valla o un incendio.

  William Butler Yeats

  Ojo, Fuego, Pies

  William Butler Yeats (1962). "Poemas de William Butler Yeats", p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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