Admirable Quote by William Godwin Download Open image “He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.” — William Godwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admirable Chosen Dishes Flavor Library Wells
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched? — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to see if… — K.A Cameron Copy Share Image
“He took out a large jar of mushrooms swimming in olive oil, two long baguettes, fresh pears, strawberries, a small wheel each of Gouda… — Susan Kiernan-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a tolerably large… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he danced a… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Godwin on Fenelon and his Valet * Following is an excerpt from William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Book II, Chapter II: “Of Justice”: In a loose and general view I and my neighbour are both of us men; and of consequence entitled to equal attention. But, in reality, it is probable that one of us is a being of… — William Godwin Copy Share
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of this happened. But I've been familiar with his work, so I felt I wanted to get it right. I wanted to honor him. I respect him and I think the way he does his job is… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image