To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole… — Giovanni Battista Morgagni Copy Share Image
How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport.… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
