Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with… — John Adams 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
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce 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
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the… — Isaac Butt Copy Share Image
“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt… — Franz Kafka 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
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
A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against… — George Barrell Cheever Copy Share Image
I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in… — Semir Zeki 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
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kinds, but mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some… — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew inscriptions are practically all pre-exilic, and do not shed much light on the language of Palestine after the Captivity.” — James John Courtenay 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
