How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky…

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh…

— Edmund Spenser

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

— Jacobus Arminius

It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's…

— Tori Amos

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

— Tennessee Williams

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

— Francis Quarles

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the…

— William Shakespeare

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm…

— Malcolm X

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of…

— John Milton

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,…

— William Shakespeare

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

— Hugh Blair

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

— Ruth Ozeki

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

— Bill Vaughan

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

— Aeschylus