One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the… — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image