Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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