(104 quotes found)
“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.”
Will Rogers
“What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?”
Desiderius Erasmus
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
Countee Cullen
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Lewis Thomas
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire
“A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine”
William Shakespeare
“The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”
Eric Hoffer
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Professor Marvel: Professor Marvel never guesses. He knows!”
The Wizard of Oz
