Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate. — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl. — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein'… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
