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
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven… — Harold Pinter 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
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
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
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
“The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life… — Wilkie Collins 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
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck… — Katharina Elisabeth Goethe Copy Share Image
The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
