Cities Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“If u r self-inspired to turn idle curiosity into an active quest, u r living at the fullest else ordianarism prevails.”

— Sushobhan

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

— Leo Rosten

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain:…

— Francis Quarles

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

— Tennessee Williams

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

— Francis Quarles

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the…

— William Shakespeare

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm…

— Malcolm X

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of…

— John Milton

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,…

— William Shakespeare

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

— Hugh Blair

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

— Ruth Ozeki

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

— Bill Vaughan

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

— Aeschylus