(43 quotes found)
“Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.”
William Arthur Ward
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief”
William Shakespeare
“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.”
William Orville Douglas
“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.”
David K Shipler
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
Camille Paglia
“The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.”
Hugh Sidey
“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
W. R. Inge
“Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom”
Danny Blanchflower
