Mark Quotes

2058 quotes by 1537 authors

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this… — Marcus Aurelius
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley! — P.J. O'Rourke
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from… — William Hazlitt
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every… — John Dryden
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. — Sarah McCoy
Itâ€™s important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards. — Julie Klausner
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and… — Stephen Leacock
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of… — Ernest Hemingway
He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill… — Al Franken
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a… — Benjamin Franklin
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. — Thomas Fuller
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that… — Martha Gellhorn

Who Wrote These Mark Quotes

1,537 authors contributed a total of 2,058 Mark Quotes, led by these top contributors: