As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing? Not the worst review… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But… — John Aylmer Copy Share Image
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the… — John Armstrong 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
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright 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
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
Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying. — Thomas Campion 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