Inscription Quotes

40 Inscription quotes by 34 unique authors

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech… — John Keats
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.… — Victor Hugo
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth… — Richard M. Nixon
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard
In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a… — Paulo Coelho
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to… — Robert Emmet
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly… — Unknown Author
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or… — Unknown Author
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name… — Bart D. Ehrman
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece — Nikos Kazantzakis
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the… — George Bernard Shaw
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away… — Anton Chekhov
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Charles Spurgeon
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his… — Simone de Beauvoir
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is… — George Bernard Shaw
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last."… — Billy Graham
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. — Diodorus Siculus
I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in… — Socrates
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. — Robert Emmet

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