“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!” “Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in… — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image