Purest Quotes
285 quotes by 242 authors
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
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I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.
— Mayim Bialik
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Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
— Giotto di Bondone
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).
— Joy Browne
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,…
— Francis Bacon
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All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and…
— Grover Cleveland
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Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
— Jean Paul
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of…
— Herman Melville
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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
— John of the Cross
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while…
— Henry David Thoreau
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a…
— Rajneesh
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Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.
— Yves Klein
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of…
— Tom L. Johnson
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Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
— Theodor Billroth
Who Wrote These Purest Quotes
242 authors contributed a total of 285 Purest Quotes, led by these top contributors: