Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object… — Ovid Copy Share Image
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art… — Frederick William Thomas Copy Share Image
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
