Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“Madrid. It was that time, the story of Don Zana 'The Marionette,' he with the hair of cream-colored string, he with the… — Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting… — Mencius Copy Share Image
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view:… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English… — Oswald Pohl Copy Share Image
... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
