A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace Copy Share Image
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
