I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many… — Robert Fulton 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
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest. — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
"And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life,… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
