(1335 quotes found)
“A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Bible
“We always return to our first loves.”
Native American Proverb
“If you arre as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.”
James Buchanan
“Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?”
Epictetus
“A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food”
Daniel Webster
“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”
Ovid
“A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.”
William Booth
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
Cyril Connolly
