Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons. — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. — George Weah Copy Share Image
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the noblest men are those who try to keep their feet firm on the ground even if they are soaring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image