Stones Quote by Plato Download Open image “As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.” — Plato ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stones
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. — Kublai Khan Copy Share Image
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The stone that the builder refuse,will be the head corner stone…Never burn your bridge even when u cross it… — Vc Copy Share
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. — Hugh MacDiarmid Copy Share Image
“You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.” — Erich Kästner Copy Share Image
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit… — Hilari Bell Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car,… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image