For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law. — Euripides Copy Share Image
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time. — David Maister Copy Share Image
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] — Statius Copy Share Image
The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loveth mean and… — Henry Scougal Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is the mark of a supreme soul not know how to inflict pain on others.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image