Gracious Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Download Open image “Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gracious Language Offense Speech Spokes
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...there was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“..Fell over the prostrate steersman, and there we all lay in a heep, two or three of us quite picturesque with the nosebleed.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day." — Alexander Hume Copy Share Image
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
It's always good to get feedback from people. I've been fortunate that all the fans, and especially fans of 'Teen Wolf,' have been really… — Sinqua Walls Copy Share Image
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter Copy Share Image
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
