“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed… — Martial Copy Share Image
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive,… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kinds, but mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
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