Above Quotes

4277 Above quotes by 2732 unique authors

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the… — Pope John Paul II
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. — Edgar Allan Poe
A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He… — David Gemmell
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. — Henry Ward Beecher
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. — Barbara Ehrenreich
She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...' — Isaac Babel
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always… — James Bryant Conant
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or… — Freya Stark
Above all, keep your colors fresh! — Edouard Manet
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. — Marc Chagall
I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath. — Fred Shero
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night,… — Mark Twain
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. — Samuel Johnson
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. — Ellen Key
Friendship reaches well above all currency. — Robert M. Hensel
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the… — Black Elk
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond… — Samuel Johnson
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual? — D. H. Lawrence

Who Wrote These Above Quotes

2,732 authors contributed a total of 4,277 Above Quotes, led by these top contributors: