It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
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