Musing Quotes

25 quotes by 23 authors

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… — Isaac D'Israeli
What Is Meditation? It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find you bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is… — Edgar Cayce
Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward"… — Charles M. Schulz
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing… — Edward Gibbon
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do withâ€”they… — John Clare
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you… — Anatole Broyard
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a… — Deborah Tannen
Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. — Neal A. Maxwell
I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of… — Charles Spurgeon
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it… — Heinrich Heine
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. — Charles Dickens
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have… — Wendell Berry
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock… — Victor Hugo
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news… — John Clare
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know… — Louise Bourgeois
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing… — Alphonse de Lamartine
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of… — William Wordsworth
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. — Tom Peters
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who Wrote These Musing Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 25 Musing Quotes as follows: