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# Weekend Words: Fifteen
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-fifteen/
- Published: 2015-01-04T14:01:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:32:08.000Z
- Description: All best wishes for 2015.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Mihály Zichy, “Illustration to Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man: Outside the Paradise (Scene 15)” (1887), charcoal drawing, 100 x 70 cm. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest. (Image via Web Gallery of Art)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/fifteen.jpg)

Mihály Zichy, “Illustration to Imre Madách’s The Tragedy of Man: Outside the Paradise (Scene 15)” (1887), charcoal drawing, 100 x 70 cm. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest. (Image via Web Gallery of Art)

All best wishes for 2015.

> “A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom — it’s gone.”  
>  
> **—Edward R. Murrow, News Summaries, December 31, 1955**

> “Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers,  
> From those brown hills, have melted into spring.”  
>  
> **—Emily Brontë, “Remembrance”**

> “The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”  
>  
> **—Lenny Bruce**

> “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up, because by that time I was too famous.”  
>  
> **—Robert Benchley**

> “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.”  
>  
> **—Ralph Waldo Emerson**

> “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest  
> Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!  
> Drink and the devil had done the rest—  
> Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”  
>  
> **—Robert Louis Stevenson, *Treasure Island***

> “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for fifteen years.”  
>  
> **—Harry S Truman**

> “Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.”  
>  
> **—Lyndon B. Johnson**

> “To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”  
>  
> **—Bernard Baruch**

> “I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”  
>  
> **—Mario Cuomo**