Quotations Page 'D'

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

- T.Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope -

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The continual habit of dissimilation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and greatly politic.

- Bacon, Adv.of Learning -

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He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust ?

- George Eliot -

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Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

- Mme Louise Colet -

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There is a divine purpose behind every physical calamity.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Harijan -

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Phisician, heal thyself.

- New Testament, Luke IV -

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Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.

- Emerson -

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Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

- Allexander Allegro -

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A living dog is better than a dead lion.

-Old Testament, Ecclesiastes -

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

- Chesterfield -

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In all the necessities of life there is not a greater plague than servants.

-Gibber, She Would And She Would -

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When in doubt, win the trick.

- Hoyle -

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On that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away and be at rest.

- Old Testament, Psalms -

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Have you not perceived the tendency of your soul during comedy, how a mixture of pain and pleasure is found therein.

- Plato, Philebus -

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In the drowsy, dark caves of the mind, dreams built their nest and fragments dropped from day's caravan.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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Dream is the wife who must talk, sleep is husband who silently suffers.

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.

- Shakespeare -

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Children of the night, of indigestion bred.

-Churchill -

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