If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously… — Martial Copy Share Image
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight… — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor,… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will… — James Mace Copy Share Image
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