(140 quotes found)
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
“Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole”
African Proverb
“We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
William R. Alger
“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Rodan of Alexandria
“May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!”
William Shakespeare
“I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me. As for my fortunes, it's really a crap shoot.”
Viggo Mortensen
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry”
Zoroaster
“when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong”
“[He] speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
