Quotations Page 'A'
Saturday, 07 September 2024
It's a melancholy indeed that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and thatan increase of our passions is but an inlet to new disquitetudes.
- Goldsmith, The Good Natured Man -
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Do not anticipate trouble, of worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Franklin -
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Holmes -
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Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter.
- Disraeli -
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Costly the habit as the purse can buy,But not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- Swift, Hamlet -
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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
- Swift, Polite Conversation -
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All that giltters is not gold;Gilded tombs do worms unfold.
- Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice -
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Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more.
- Carlyle -
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Now good digestion wait on appettite, and health on both.
- Shakespeare -
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom bears half applause.
- George Eliot, Romola -
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Oh, to be in EnglandNow that April's there.
- R. Browning, Home Thought Aborad -
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A Gothic church is petrified religion.
- Coleridge -
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
- Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost -
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Clear statement is argument.
- W.G.T.Shedd -
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Wise men argue cause: fools decide them.
- Anacharsis -
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The best armour is to keep out of gunshot.
- Bacon -
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Army is a good book in which to study human life.
- De Vigny -
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Nothing is more hateful to a poor man than the purseproud arrogance of rich.
- Cumberland -
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Art is long and time is fleeting.
- Longfellow, A Psalm of life -
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