Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing what I could sing... To… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
