Fancy Quote by James Boswell Download Open image “I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.” — James Boswell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fancy Mankind May Nature of man Time Writing
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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
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