Scoured Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the… — Orison Swett Marden
Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three… — R. W. Apple
The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough… — T. H. Watkins
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops… — Richard Ford
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your… — James Lileks
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. — John Gould Fletcher
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. — John Ruskin
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. — William Shakespeare
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently… — Mark Helprin
I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there… — John Green
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for… — Anton Szandor LaVey
He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd… — Colin Cotterill
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings. — Brad Holland

Who Wrote These Scoured Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Scoured Quotes as follows: