Copious Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her…
— Daniel Boone
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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear, bikinis, whatever Emma…
— Cat Deeley
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly…
— Noah Webster
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If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large…
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not…
— Paul Vixie
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The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And…
— Walt Whitman
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I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale…
— Laurie Notaro
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Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.
— Diana Trilling
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With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should…
— Kevin Mitnick
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she…
— Kiersten White
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Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet…
— Meg Cabot
Who Wrote These Copious Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Copious Quotes as follows: