Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle.… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was… — Charles Loomis Dana Copy Share Image
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/91a/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_twenty-two-years-ago-judge-then-senator_1689352.png)
