Grandeur Quote by Thomas Gray Download Open image “Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.” — Thomas Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grandeur Poor Short and simple Simple Simplicity
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
“No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“People born to a society without the smile culture all their lives will be unhappy!” — Viorel Muha Copy Share Image
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile… — Anonymous Copy Share
“Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of the wealthy is… — Shon Mehta Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ” — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young 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
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
