Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment;… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its… — Kalidasa Copy Share Image
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise. — Rumi Copy Share Image
