Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work. — Mark Jason Dominus Copy Share Image
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . .… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fancy expensive designer shops are out for me as I'm a size 18, sometimes 20, and I therefore do not count as… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon;… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
My mother gave me an Oscar de la Renta Gone with the Wind ballgown dress. I've never had a place to wear… — Elizabeth Jagger Copy Share Image
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