Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man. — Alfred Edward Housman Copy Share Image
You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.” — Anna Beer Copy Share Image
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer". - Milton.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
“grown steadily throughout the South ever since. The Mt. Jefferson branch was the twenty-third to open, and Milton felt lucky to be… — Don Reid Copy Share Image
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton]… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image