(183 quotes found)
“Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
Washington Irving
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt
“Elevate those guns a little lower.”
Andrew Jackson
“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.”
Sam Levenson
“Sometimes it feels like it's Vaudeville up there on the bench, ... The robe is a costume. I'm on an elevated seat. It could be looked at as staging.”
John Wesley
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”
Charles Sumner
“I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.”
Maria Callas
“George, a camel, stepped on the foot of a Rockette; six sheep came off the elevator as three kings bearing gifts got on; human Christmas trees bumped into eight maids-a-milking at the water cooler and an elf came down with the flu.”
William E. Geist
“History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.”
Edmund Morris
