When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty. — Laozi Copy Share Image
He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls'… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers,… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is such a blind stuff that it can never give you any idea as to what is reality. Because whatever you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The master of the palace had similar functions at the court of Judah. Announcing the promotion of Elyaqim, Isaiah 22:22 says: 'I… — Roland de Vaux Copy Share Image
If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
