Ground Quotes

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Between two stools one sits on the ground. — Francois Rabelais
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground — Baltasar Gracian
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let… — Thomas Browne
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it. — Henry David Thoreau
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away… — Finley Peter Dunne
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation?… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And… — William Shakespeare
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that… — Mencius
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our… — Leigh Hunt
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list: and… — George Herbert
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for… — William Cowper
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. — John Milton
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. — Heinrich Heine
Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. — Heinrich Heine
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. — Heinrich Heine
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience… — Francis Quarles
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. — Edmund Burke
I live an idle burden to the ground. — Homer
The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. — Anne Sexton
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark... — Vincent Van Gogh

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