A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then,… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Did Donald Trump apologize for taking after somebody in a Twitter war and making fun of her weight? Did he apologize for… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as… — Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business.… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image