Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the… — Emiliano Zapata Copy Share Image
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs.… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Integrity is the most important accessory you'll ever have, it will never go out of fashion, get old, or fade. It's the… — Alexis Jones Copy Share Image
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be… — Samson Raphael Hirsch Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] — Statius Copy Share Image
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time. — David Maister Copy Share Image
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of… — Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington Copy Share Image
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. — George Sand Copy Share Image