I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep,… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit! — John Trumbull Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image