(96 quotes found)
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise”
William Blake
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”
Charles de Lint
“Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him”
Cleobulus
“No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion”
Carrie Chapman Catt
“Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.”
Pierre Corneille
“No chains can bind it, and no cell enclose:Swifter than light, it flies from pole to pole,And, in a flash, from earth to heaven it goes!”
William Lloyd Garrison
