Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place. — Enya Copy Share Image
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be… — Don Herold Copy Share Image
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
