Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell 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
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
This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to… — Anne Frank 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
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the… — Paul Eldridge 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
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
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
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive,… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not… — Elizabeth Grosz Copy Share Image
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright 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
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. — Horace Copy Share Image
In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It… — Paulo Coelho 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
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or… — Bart D. Ehrman 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
“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the… — Carlos Barrios 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
True love cannot die,'" Will said, translating the inscription on the back in the light from the corridor. "I can't wear this,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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