I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Pericles Copy Share Image
A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed… — Martial Copy Share Image
