(914 quotes found)
“Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side”
William Shakespeare
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”
Zen Proverb
“Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.”
Thurgood Marshall
“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.”
William S. Burroughs
“Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,Making both it unable for itself,And dispossessing all my other partsOf necessary fitness?”
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt”
“The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.”
William Allen White