If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ...… — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well. — Samuel Woodworth Copy Share Image
Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss,-- fullest when most Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image