(1808 quotes found)
“Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.”
William Osler
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat”
Bible
“I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.”
Louise Brooks
“Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil”
Charles Simmons
“Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion”
William Lloyd Garrison
“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”
S. I. Hayakawa
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better”
William Shakespeare
“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”
Charles Baudelaire