With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed.… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their… — Thomas Yalden Copy Share Image
