Bells Quotes

516 quotes by 414 authors

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. — Walter Bagehot
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. — Shirley Bassey
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher
I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you… — Ben Affleck
I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so… — Jo Brand
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down… — Edward McKendree Bounds
One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death… — Pablo Neruda
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when… — Benito Mussolini
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from… — Elaine Stritch
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you… — Jack Handey
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. — Wilfred Owen
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. — George Herbert
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. — Jeffrey Archer
To the counsel of fools a wooden bell. — George Herbert

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