Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures.

T. S. Eliot

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

Michel de Montaigne

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

J. I. Packer

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

Susan B. Anthony

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

Jonathan Edwards

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

William Randolph Hearst

Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!

Arthur Schnitzler

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Kevin Jones

There are creatures from all over the universe, and they're not all going to look like humans.

Michael Leunig

Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.

Richard Kissel

The renderings for the first time give us a look at what these creatures looked like and how they moved.

Atharva Veda

These creatures all together shall yield milk for us; do thou, O earth, give us the honey of speech!

Joseph Addison

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.

Jane Austen

I am certainly the most fortunate creature ever existed!

Nicolas Boileau

Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.

Pope XVI

We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies: Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, those who do not walk in the ways of sin, shall be exalted in the world hereafter.

Edmund Burke

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

Campbell Scott

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

Wendell Mayes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Robert Herrick

And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head

Charles Spurgeon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.