(1184 quotes found)
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
Clarence Day
“I very nearly had to wait!”
Louis XIV
“The Peabody is the Paris Ritz, the Cairo Shepherd's, the London Savoy If you stand near its fountain in the middle of the lobby, where ducks waddle and turtles drowse, ultimately you will see everybody who is anybody in the Delta.”
David Cohn
“Don't ever let him near a microphone.”
Aaron Copland
“Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man”
Yoko Ono
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
Andrew Marvell
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? / Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.”
Bible
“Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come”
Chinese Proverbs
