I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against… — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message. — Steve Biddulph Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.” — M.T. Dismuke Copy Share Image
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
