Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will… — David Graham Phillips Copy Share Image
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
“The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If we want to make the most of half of our workforce, if we want to eliminate the gender pay gap and… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
When a woman dresses modestly, I can take her seriously as a woman because she doesn’t look like she’s begging for attention.… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today.… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man.… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern… — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like… — Francis Aveling Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical.… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men are going to have to learn to be managers in a world where the organization will come close to consisting of… — Thomas L Whisler Copy Share Image
