The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a…

Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a…

— Owen Feltham

“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men…

— Michel de Montaigne

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its…

— Henry Ward Beecher

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

— John Flavel

This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one word. But…

— Thrity Umrigar

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

— Joaquin Andujar

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

— Nicholas G. Carr

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind…

— George Matthew Adams

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

— Andy Goldsworthy

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is…

— Sheldon Harnick

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and…

— Geraldine Brooks

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is…

— Fulton J. Sheen

My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always…

— Denzel Washington

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,…

— Janet Fitch