Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

Alan Watts

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

Barbara Bush

I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich.

H. P. Lovecraft

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

Mark Twain

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

Sammy Cahn

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

Louis Tomlinson

And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.

Clement Attlee

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Michael Sata

This is our country. You are treating me like an animal, like it's not my country.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.