Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Most American children suffertoo much mother and too little father. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, what I'm really thinking about are dollar signs. — Tonya Harding Copy Share Image
Whither I go, thither shall yougo too; Today will I set forth, tomorrow you. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in theblood of Christ? The bread that we break, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... But a coarse old man am I, I choose the second-best, I forget it all awhile Upon a woman's breast. Day-break… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shelley is truth itselfand honour itselfnot with standing his out-of-the-way notions about religion. — George Gordon Noel Byron Copy Share Image
Go, grieving rimes of mine, tothat hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and isfirst committed by, the powerthat makes and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Carlyle: a passionate outpouring of words recommending silence and self-control. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying; These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but… — John Webster Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd have such a luxurious life. A healthy husband ... beautiful little girl... Jacuzzi and beer and fruitbowl and… — Miki Gorman Copy Share Image
Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,all mean egotism vanishes. I become a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if weanswer it in the affirmative, ifwe accept it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
O thou that in the heavens does dwell! Wha, as it pleases best thysel', Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell,… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Jim, she said earnestly, if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Your notions of friendship arenew to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himselfin the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any one who knows what theworth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image