Emblems Quote by Jill Jonnes

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the…

— John Frederick Boyes

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the…

— Robert Fortune

If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should…

— Johan Huizinga

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

— Mason Cooley

For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude…

— Sergio Chejfec

The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf…

— Alistair Cooke

A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and…

— Eleanor Perenyi

The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were…

— Henry Adams

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to…

— John Evelyn

Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies…

— Albert Pike