To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. — Pope Pius II Copy Share Image
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor,… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. — Homer Copy Share Image
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why? — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center… — Jack H. Goaslind Copy Share Image
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body, — Fauja Singh Copy Share Image
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image