The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference,… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
