The emblems of status may shift, but human nature…

If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that…

— Hudson Maxim

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to…

— David Whyte

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,…

— Boris Pasternak

Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies…

— Albert Pike

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to…

— John Evelyn

The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were…

— Henry Adams

A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and…

— Eleanor Perenyi

The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf…

— Alistair Cooke

For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude…

— Sergio Chejfec

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

— Mason Cooley

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should…

— Johan Huizinga

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same…

— Henry David Thoreau

[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he…

— Robert Hass

Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.

— Samuel Woodworth