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The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. The-End-is-Nigh guy blinked. "Ah, maybe, I don't know. -- Jana Oliver
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. -- Bernard Baruch
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. -- Robert Bolt
Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. -- George Whitefield
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. -- William James
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right. -- Malcolm Turnbull
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. -- Ann Wilson
All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh. -- Jack Kerouac
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. -- John Dryden
The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes. -- John Keble
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories. -- Oscar Wilde
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. -- William Blake
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. -- Francis Bacon
When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless. -- Bob Jones, Sr.
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. -- Mark Twain
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. -- Alfred Stieglitz
MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh... -- Muse
When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me. -- Archpoet
The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh. -- Juvenal
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. -- Theodore Bikel
The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie. -- Sappho
the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind. -- Rose Macaulay
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. -- Moliere
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough. -- Alexander Pope
Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking. -- John F. Carlson
Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord. -- James Montgomery
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless. -- William Faulkner
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. -- Samuel Johnson
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces. -- Erik Naggum
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. -- Remy de Gourmont
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. -- Marcus Aurelius
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face. -- William Wordsworth
Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die. -- John Keble
How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home]. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. -- Gardiner Spring
Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. -- Chester A. Arthur
I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you! -- Charles Dickens
I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it. -- F. Paul Wilson
Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams. -- Clinton Scollard
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? -- Walt Whitman
That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times. -- Thomas Hardy
The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past. -- William Allingham
Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy. -- John Milton
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens. -- Elizabeth I
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. -- George Croly
Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh. -- Marc Riboud
Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death. -- Gennadius of Constantinople
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us! -- Henry David Thoreau
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky. -- William Morris
Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. -- George Whitefield

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