Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby. — George Gascoigne Copy Share Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there;... — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour. — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying. — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking.… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
![“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac9/john-adams-529_ability_d-emocracy-will-soon-degenerate-into-an_1146087.jpg)
