Quotations Page 'D'
Friday, 11 October 2024
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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