(474 quotes found)
“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”
Oscar Wilde
“The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey.”
William Blake
“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”
Ovid
“I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.”
Louise Brooks
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy”
William Shakespeare
“Louisiana has [no] monopoly on rogues, rapscallions, shakedowns and kickbacks. Nor is it the only place where a few officials have endeared themselves to the electorate by means of the utter disorder of their private lives.”
Jon Nordheimer
“I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family...”
Frances Wright
“Beans are neither fruit nor musical”
Nancy Cartwright
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
C. Wright Mills
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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