He all their ammunition And feats of war defeats With plain heroic magnitude of mind And celestial vigour armed; — John Milton Copy Share Image
Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire Mgo up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Our fathers' God! to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light;… — Samuel Francis Smith Copy Share Image
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
And wow he died as wow he lived, going whop to the office and blooie home to sleep and biff got married… — Kenneth Fearing Copy Share Image
Those feelings of envy are familiar to many of us. We see our children accomplishing things that we've always been afraid to… — Ruth Davidson Bell Copy Share Image
But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberatedfrom the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leavesthe… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his wickedness. Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take… — Apocrypha Copy Share Image
At night the passion came, Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream, And shook him from his rest, and led him… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So I wasn't dreaming, after all, she said to herself,unlessunless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The tiger in the tiger-pit Is not more irritable than I. The whipping tail is not morestill Than when I smell the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings… — Henry Lewis Mencken Copy Share Image
And this must be the prime oflife . . . I blink, As if at pain; for it is pain, to think… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If the opponent is weak, your accommodation made yourself became cocky but accomplisheding to the powerful opponent is not only reflects your… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I see him across the street, the blind man, and now he says he can find his way. He knows where he… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
. only of a living human being and what resembles (behaves like) a living human being can one say: it has sensations;… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The President has apples on the table And barefoot servants round him, who adjust The curtains to a metaphysicalt And the banners… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Who are you, said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly,II hardly know, Sir,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They… — Lydia M Child Copy Share Image
Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are; Though you bind in every shore And your triumphs reach… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that ithas found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With spring the father-sky remakes the world: The male shower has flowed into the bride, Earth's body; then shifted through sky and… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enjoy idlingthoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There isno fun in doing nothing whenyou have… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
Heredity Proposes love, love exacts language, and we lack Language. When shall we speak again? When shall The sparrow dusting the gutter… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinctby time and circumstances,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For thousands the world is a freak show, the images flickerpast and disappear, the impressions remain flat and disconnected in the soul.… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance andfurious anger those who attempt to poison and destroymy brothers. And you… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong.It rejects the Christian principle of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The kiss. There are all sorts ofkisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss… — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To the American People:MChristmas is not a time or a season but a state ofmind. To cherish peace and good will, to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
That strange feeling we had inthe war. Have you found anything in your lives since toequal it in strength? A sort of… — Noël Coward Copy Share Image