Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“But--no--splendid is not the right word. they are splendid, but they are--they are so friendly. Oh dear!' she said, and looked up… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it! — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
