The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set…

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