Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Within the book and volume of thy brain.
We were not born to sue, but to command.
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
For you and I are past our dancing days.
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
All that we behold is full of blessings.
May books and nature be their early joy!
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
The very flowers are sacred to the poor.
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
We have lived with violence far too long.
Indifference is a quarantined difference.
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
And empty heads console with empty sound.
It is sure the hardest science to forget!
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
God made thee good as thou art beautiful.
Sweet is true love, though given in vain.
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
I am younger each year at the first snow.
O starry night, This is how I want to die
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
We need a world-wide Department of Peace.
There live Christ and Nero in our hearts.
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
Valor is common but great souls are rare.