Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example,… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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