Cave Quotes
303 quotes by 267 authors
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
— Margaret Atwood
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls.…
— Colin McEnroe
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who…
— Candace Pert
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
— John Milton
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I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Caveman the best. We called him Uncle Caveman because he lived in a cave and because…
— Jack Handey
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
— Eric Hoffer
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the…
— Terry Pratchett
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I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the…
— Jack Handey
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You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was…
— Jim Courier
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[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation…
— Thomas George Bonney
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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the…
— Jack Kornfield
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is…
— Khalil Gibran
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Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your…
— Farid al-Din Attar
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking,…
— John C. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Cave Quotes
267 authors contributed a total of 303 Cave Quotes, led by these top contributors: