Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

No one does anything from a single motive.

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clichT. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.