The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party. — Lady Violet Copy Share Image
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble. — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero. — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
