Folded Quotes
122 quotes by 109 authors
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave…
— Arthur Symons
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The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting…
— Dave Barry
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Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
— Bob Cousy
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A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
— Lord Byron
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same…
— William Walker Atkinson
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of…
— Edward Abbey
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round…
— Barbara Mertz
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The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre…
— Milton Glaser
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Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
— Jimmy Breslin
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She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying,…
— Philip Pullman
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He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
— Confucius
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Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which…
— Penelope Lively
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Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of…
— Dara Torres
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I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the…
— Lisa Leslie
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Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.
— John Haines
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But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we…
— Oswald Chambers
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A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the…
— Nelson Mandela
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I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Who Wrote These Folded Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 122 Folded Quotes, led by these top contributors: