Inscription Quotes
40 Inscription quotes by 34 unique authors
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
— Samuel Butler
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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
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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
— Alexander Smith
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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
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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
— James Boswell
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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
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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
— Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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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
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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
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May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!
— Charles Spurgeon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.
— Diodorus Siculus
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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
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
— Robert Emmet
Who Wrote These Inscription Quotes
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