Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through… — Ai Qing Copy Share Image
“The Door of Knowledge Through Which the Untutored May Not Pass sticks something wicked in the damp.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“It's damp outside, and I'm always cold. Most days I wear a cap and shawl indoors." "I could suggest other methods to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have… — Sheridan Morley Copy Share Image
“It’s always damp here. The ocean uses the rain and mist to reach inland, and the ground’s a sponge, but if you… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair… — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race… — Timothy O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain,… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge". What you see… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. — David Gray Copy Share Image
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Marie [Henein]'s adeptness at evisceration - I'm damp with it. She was able to instill in me a feeling of self-loathing. And,… — Lucy DeCoutere Copy Share Image
Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced… — Gilbert Harding Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image