“When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?" Danny: "Human nature," he said.… — Judith Victoria Douglas Copy Share Image
There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy… — William Law Copy Share Image
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them,… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Alarm clocks were going off in the city now. One after another, sometimes two or three together, they drove their small silver… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
