Partakes Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a…
— Tertullian
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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as…
— William Ames
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Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh…
— Saint Augustine
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
— Francois Mauriac
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A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be…
— Hayden Carruth
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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of…
— Plato
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It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality…
— Alexis Soyer
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Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical…
— William Rowan Hamilton
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Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance…
— Randy Alcorn
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But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper…
— David Hume
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Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a…
— Roland Barthes
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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
— Eric Hoffer
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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,…
— Erasmus Darwin
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around…
— James F. Cooper
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
— Mohsin Hamid
Who Wrote These Partakes Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Partakes Quotes as follows: