Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous. — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous. — Boy George Copy Share Image
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each morning when you start your day, glance in the mirror, and simply say This will be a marvellous Day! — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Football is marvellous and there are countless ways to play and to win. — Diego Simeone Copy Share Image
I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... — John Lydon Copy Share Image
It is marvellous for us all. I have said that after all I have suffered, every time I walk into a ground… — Ronaldo Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This… — Stuart Adamson Copy Share Image
And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful,… — Sarah Smiley Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a… — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. — Dusty Springfield Copy Share Image
