When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books ... books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson 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
There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do… — Kate Mulgrew 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
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets,… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
