Devour Quotes

142 quotes by 133 authors

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living. — Antisthenes
The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying. — Octavian Paler
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. — Ralph Washington Sockman
What the Londoner sees in his mindâ€™s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset,… — John Betjeman
Itâ€™s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant… — Steve Aylett
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth;… — Richard de Bury
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. — Steven Millhauser
I am a machine condemned to devour books. — Karl Marx
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless… — W. Somerset Maugham
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.… — Franz Liszt
But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity.… — Robert Collier
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. — Miguel de Cervantes
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour… — Octave Mirbeau
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an… — Leon M. Lederman
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus,… — Hesiod
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to… — Thomas Merton
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then… — Pierre Bayle
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;… — Heinrich Heine

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