Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave;… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Rudy Steiner was scared of the book theif's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have longed for… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into… — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that… — F. Burton Howard Copy Share Image
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service?… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He… — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
[W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves,… — Maxim Gorky 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
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“I have been digging through graves looking for proof that civilizations, people and stories don't really ever die, but what I've learned,… — Zoe Klein Copy Share Image