Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier Copy Share Image
“...they were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life...” — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the… — Joseph F. Lamb Copy Share Image
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without… — Milton A. Rothman Copy Share Image
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image