Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. — Saadi
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. — John Ruskin
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like… — Sathya Sai Baba
We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before. — John F. Kerry
There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift… — Emily Carr
A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor… — Leslie Ludy
I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE… — Arthur Gordon Webster
To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is… — Bruce Lee
Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet. — Amy Dickinson
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,… — Dorothy Parker
It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was… — Tarek Saab
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that… — John Kenneth Galbraith
What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell. — John Greenleaf Whittier
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all. — Dawn French
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Khalil Gibran

Who Wrote These Shell Quotes

410 authors contributed a total of 460 Shell Quotes, led by these top contributors: