Stamp Quotes

263 Stamp quotes by 234 unique authors

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. — Josh Billings
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him,… — John Knowles
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone… — Aldous Huxley
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That… — William Shakespeare
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect… — Warren Ellis
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. — Swami Vivekananda
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a… — Shakti Gawain
Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion… — Jenny Downham
Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. — Stephenie Meyer
Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the… — Robert Graves
Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out… — Mark Dunn
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp… — Haruki Murakami
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will… — William Faulkner
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. — Jonathan Edwards
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more.… — Daphne du Maurier
Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him… — Kelley Armstrong

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